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With these tectonic shifts, the business has abandoned its pretenses of collegiality and moved closer in structure and style to Hollywood, where an oligarchy of half a dozen companies hustles for hits. Says Michael Korda, editor in chief of Simon & Schuster and a best-selling novelist himself, on the subject of big advances: "It's like stars in the movie business. If you want Cher for your movie, by God, you've got to pay Cher...
...Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade is the biggest-opening blockbuster of all time. The third in the series of cliff-hanging tales directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Harrison Ford, Crusade has been breaking records since it made its debut May 24. The film accounted for more than half of all the movie tickets sold in the U.S. over Memorial Day weekend. Fans paid $11.2 million to see it on May 27 alone, the biggest one-day take ever scored by a movie, and shelled out an unprecedented $50.2 million the first week. Since that is about what...
Some protesters held fast, fighting with rocks and Molotov cocktails. Near a hotel entrance, a group of demonstrators saw two soldiers kill a civilian, then pounced on the pair and beat them to death. An armored personnel carrier that had sped into the square half an hour before the main assault was blocked by a barricade of bicycle racks. Protesters mummified the APC in banners and cloth, then set it ablaze with Molotov cocktails, trapping its crew of eight or nine soldiers...
Those professors who now teach the module will continue to do so next year, says Piper. Afterwards, though, the school will implement a rotation system: in any given year, half of the module's professors will have taught the classes in the previous year, and half will be new to the program, to remain within the module for one or two years before returning to their normal areas of expertise...
After some recruiting during the past two years, Harvard now has a core of about half a dozen ethicists among its 108-member faculty. Only a few of the nine professors who teach the first-year module can be considered ethics scholars, having devoted significant research to issues in the field...