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...subway in L.A. "The script," Corliss notes, "thus exploits two major fears of Angelenos: getting demolished by a horrid subterranean force, and having to take public transportation. The gookum-like lava is less smothering than the plot clich?s: our hero (Tommy Lee Jones) and his perpetually hysterical child (Gaby Hoffman), ever blundering into catastrophe; the spiky geologist (Anne Heche) who has to exclaim, ?Oh, God!? 46 times; silliest of all, the ornery whites and blacks who, when covered with gray ash, learn that, gee, Armageddon is colorblind. And just once in a disaster film, could a dog please...
Suleiman, who has taught at the University since 1981, will replace Stanley H. Hoffman, who resigned from the post in January to accept a University professorship...
...wonderful choice," Hoffman said. "She's particularly fitted for it because of her interest in contemporary French literature and also in...very important cultural issues in France...
...Hoffman praised Suleiman's work on many post-war French authors including the likes of de Beauvoir and Sartre, calling her a "highly original and very competent teacher and writer with a very broad scope...
Investors like Susan Hoffman have experienced both sides of such trends. Hoffman, 45, lost her job as vice president and general manager of a San Diego radio station three months ago, when her employer merged with another company. Presumably the merged company will be more efficient and more profitable, which is good for its stock price. Now Hoffman boots up her computer every morning to track stock-market investments that have earned her $76,000 in just the past year. "I'm a risk taker," she says. "I'm not thinking of pulling out." Neither is Mike Pearson, 48, regional...