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Thirty years ago, Roger Vadim created And God Created Woman and created Brigitte Bardot. Now the French director has seen fit to update his classic handiwork. The man who made stars -- and conquests -- of such leading ladies as Bardot, Catherine Deneuve and Jane Fonda has just finished an identically titled 1980s version that is the "same idea," he says, but the "heroine is different." Juliette, the saucy French hedonist, has become Robin Shay, an aspiring American musician. She "believes in her freedom over everything," says Rebecca De Mornay, 24, who plays the part. "And she's afraid of the intimacy...
...dedicated men who gathered in Philadelphia in the spring and summer of 1787 could hardly have imagined that their handiwork would one day be feted in such fashion. "We the people of the United States," they wrote after much heated debate, "in order to form a more perfect union . . . and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and to our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America...
...politicians looking to share credit and camera angles, the President picked up the first of two dozen pens -- one for each letter of his name so as to maximize the number of souvenirs -- and signed the Tax Reform Act of 1986. But when those around him saw his handiwork, there was a burst of laughter. "I was in such a hurry," Reagan confessed, "I wrote my last name first." The President remedied the slip by squeezing in a cramped Ronald in front of Reagan...
...nonbinding resolution is the handiwork of GRIP (Greater Roxbury Incorporation Project), a group of black activists who felt that they were losing their neighborhoods to gentrification. Polls indicate that the referendum is headed for defeat, however, partly because several Boston officials have claimed that an independent Mandela would face a first-year tax deficit of $135 million...
...Like Harvard, most institutions of higher learning are wrestling with the question of how to teach undergraduates and what to teach them. Eight years ago, in reaction to the freewheeling 1960s, when course requirements were far less focused, Harvard voted to implement a so-called core curriculum. Largely the handiwork of Rosovsky, the core today is a collection of nearly 150 courses drawn from six broad academic areas, including science, literature and the arts and foreign cultures, from which undergraduates must select 25% of their baccalaureate studies. Rosovsky believes the core assures common immersion in great currents of world knowledge...