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...sure thing this year that Emma Thompson will win for her "Sense and Sensibility" screenplay. Some critics complained that Thompson's script was too streamlined, jettisoning too much of the book and updating parts, but she has primarily won kudos for turning Jane Austen into today's hottest writer...
...tobacco wars may be hottest in Florida right now. In the last five minutes of the last day of the 1994 session, the state legislature overwhelmingly--and according to some, unwittingly--passed Senate Bill 2110, a Medicaid amendment that holds the tobacco industry responsible for the estimated $300 million to $800 million a year the state pays to treat tobacco-related illnesses and that allows lawsuits to collect these funds to use statistical evidence compiled by the Centers for Disease Control. "Profound sneak attack," charges one tobacco lobbyist. The tobacco industry and some associated industries, like U.S. Sugar, filed suit...
Cybersurfers have come slumming in droves. With nearly 40,000 visitors--or "hits," in cyberspeak--a day, The Spot has become one of the hottest sites on the Web. E-mail messages flash in from more than 50 countries. Fan suggestions are routinely incorporated into the onscreen action. "It's the interaction that makes it work," says Russell Collins, president of Fattal & Collins, the California ad firm that funded the $100,000 launch of The Spot...
...responsible wing of the Afrocentric movement under the leadership of Molefi Kete Asante. His department includes the leading Egyptologist Theophile Obenga, as well as professors of African dance and linguistics. All 35 students who have received doctorates from Temple's program easily found jobs. Says Asante: "This is the hottest degree in the country." There are now 215 black-studies programs of varying quality at colleges and universities around...
...Traditionally, the outgoing Editorial Chair of The Crimson reviews the Pudding show. I assume this custom began as a special honor, in the days when the Pudding show was worth seeing. The Editorial Chair, as head of the Opinion and Arts pages, could grab one of Cambridge's hottest tickets as a final privilege...