Word: let
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Again bordering on apostasy, Gorbachev addressed the cold war: "Let historians argue who is more and who is less to blame for it." In fact, understanding the reasons for the long twilight struggle is crucial to answering the most important question raised by Moscow's new thinking: Should the U.S. eagerly accept Gorbachev's tempting invitation to declare the cold war over? Significantly, he addressed, with words and proposed actions, each of the core causes of that contest...
...fools as well." One scene -- a flashback of a desperate encounter between the writer's mother and her husband's best friend -- was sexually explicit, even by the liberal standards of British TV. "There was a debate about it at BBC, " Potter says, "but they decided to let it go uncut. And in fact the consequences of that particular adultery were illness and death and great misery. So it could hardly be held up as an invitation to promiscuity." In the end, Detective earned robust ratings and a British Academy of Film and Television Arts best actor award for Michael...
...Let's add it up," says Frank Leana, director of the Manhattan office of Howard Greene & Associates, a Connecticut-based education consulting firm. "The full line with us is about $2,000. Visiting five schools in New England and staying two overnights is close to $800. If you do an SAT prep course, that's another $500 to $600, and there are private tutors for $35 to $100 an hour. Every college application is another $25 to $40." The total: well over...
...maybe the Woman of the Future. For Nichols' film is also as modern as the 21st century challenge that faces America. How will the working class be educated to survive and thrive in the computer age? This intoxicating movie has an answer: let her strut her outer-borough wisdom from Wall Street to the Pacific Rim. Watch her fatten portfolios as she melts hearts. With working girls like Tess, America ain't down yet. -- Richard Corliss...
Harvard has let down its students by not releasing the rest of the survey results and by backing down on an open forum. It is too late for the approximately 720 seniors who answered the questionnaire to get the forum they were promised. But it is not too late for the rest of the students. The University should hold a meeting at which all information can be discussed...