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There must be a lot of masochists in New York City and L.A.: the film (which cost a preposterously meager $25,000, and which Sony Pictures Classics bought for less than $50,000) earned $196,157 its first week on just eight screens. And if tickets could be sold for discussion groups after the show, it would have made even more. "Women love the movie," says Tom Bernard, co-president of Sony Classics. "It shows men behaving badly, and women feel like a fly on the wall watching the things men do." Stacy Edwards, the Juliette Binoche look-alike...
...AAUP's study, "Not So Good: The Economic Status of the Profession," alarmed many in academia because inflation, at 3.3 percent, out paced the average salary increase for full-time faculty across the nation, a meager three percent for the last academic year...
...they are a good idea. The question, then, is a matter of degree. After a great deal of prompting by students, the CRC has espoused the opinion that the Core program should allow more departmental classes to count for Core requirements so that students are not limited to the meager number of choices that they now have. While we agree that there is a lack of options for students in the current Core program, there is a more substantive reason for allowing non-Core courses to count for the Core requirements...
...Crimson tallied many hits--beyond the meager math skills of Ivy League college students--including 11 home runs...
...rate at which their children married outside the faith do likewise. Unease turned to alarm in 1990, when the National Jewish Population Survey announced that the intermarriage rate had reached 52%. A last forlorn fantasy--that all those Gentile spouses would eventually become Jews--was punctured by a meager 9% conversion rate. In fact, 54% of the children in all Jewish households are not being raised as Jews. The result, often feared but never quite in this context: "Saving an unforeseen reversal of current trends, it appears...that the history of the Jews as we have known it and them...