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This comedy of manners deserves plenty of goodwill. It was made in twelve days by 29-year-old Writer-Director-Editor Spike Lee. It displays the sumptuous camerawork of Ernest Dickerson. And it tries -- how hard it tries -- for something fresh. Nola Darling (Tracy Camila Johns) is a woman with...
But Nola (Tracy Camila Johns) is not really a rogue. She's as upfront as can be about her affairs, and that is precisely what both attracts and frustrates her suitors. The film opens with Nola in bed, pleasantly engaged.
Other experts seemed equally impressed. After hearing of the NCI report, Allan Hess, a Johns Hopkins University researcher, summed up the mood of cancer specialists. "We're really beginning to understand what goes on in cancer," he said. "Now we're taking that knowledge and applying it."
In the murky equations of the Middle East, power is usually bought with gunpowder. Johns Hopkins Professor Fouad Ajami, author of the recently published The Vanished Imam, a profile of Moussa Sadr, the charismatic Shi'ite cleric and political leader, calls the Shi'ites the "stepchildren of the Arab world...
Last summer Walker, a professor at the Johns Hopkins University medical school, was looking for baboon fossils, when he spotted the skull fragment. By studying volcanic ash and other bones nearby, his colleagues determined the skull's age. Its pedigree was trickier. It has the structure of a late australopithecine...