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...Harvard has, to this day, been a training ground for the celebrated, it may hearten us all to know that it was their playing ground, too. Before realization of your terrible midterm grades doubles your hangover, take this little dose of DWTWCKOT, also known as: Don’t Worry, They Were College Kids Once...
Things must stay essentially as they are then. The unfortunate result is that some students who might have gone on to write brilliantly are turned away by Harvard’s big, bad creative writing program. But spurned applicants should hearten up. After all, when was the last time that angst and rejection did any real harm to a great writer’s genius?...
SOMETHING LIKE THE REAL THING It was a revelation that may hearten his insurance company but disillusion his fans: action star JACKIE CHAN, 48, the martial-arts expert from Hong Kong long known for personally executing all manner of hazardous maneuvers on film, admitted that he has started using a stunt double. "I will use stunt doubles if you ask me to ride an F-16 jet fighter, or jump over a series of hurdles with a crazy horse, or perform two 720-degree somersaults," Chan said. But, he added, "[if the script calls for] one somersault...
Gore's blast and Daschle's tirade did hearten liberal Democratic donors--some of whom have begun threatening to withhold contributions unless the party stands up to Bush on Iraq. Singer Barbra Streisand's political adviser faxed a "confidential memo" to House minority leader Dick Gephardt, a strong backer of military action, urging Democrats "to get off the defensive." The memo pointedly noted that Streisand had delegated an intermediary to write it--because the pop diva was busy rehearsing for a concert in Los Angeles that was expected to raise $4 million for House Democrats...
Yang's attitude should hearten China's womb police, who have spent two decades attempting to control the nation's population. They have succeeded remarkably well. Today the average Chinese woman has two children, compared with six 30 years ago. "For all the bad press, China has achieved the impossible," says Sven Burmester, the U.N. Population Fund representative in Beijing. "The country has solved its population problem...