Word: milles
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Robert Shapiro, never averse to cameras, has signed on as executive producer for Evil Empire, a movie about the Russian Mafia, to be written by one-man script mill Joe Eszterhas. "I'll need his creativity, street smarts and negotiation skills when I'm dealing with the Russian Mob," says Eszterhas, adding that the two are old friends. "He was one of my divorce attorneys...
...document examines diversity from a historical context, invoking theories of John Locke and J.S. Mill who, Rudenstine writes, emphasized the value of diversity of ideas in creating the best possible educational environment...
...went to John Stuart Mill, President Eliot and writers of the 19th century precisely to avoid bringing politics into the debate...
...fripperies--parietals, coats and ties in the Freshman Union, Jolly-Ups (remember Jolly-Ups?)--simply faded away, pathetic relics. The war, fighting the war--fighting against the war--engulfed us. We were fighting to change the world. We held sit-ins and mill-ins and teach-ins, marched in protest to Boston Common and past the White House, went on strike, boy-cotted finals, spoke frequently of revolution...and yes, I do remember, we were young...
...that these are, after all, works of fiction, it's fair to point out that no scientist likes to see his field of study caricatured--all the more so when the caricaturists have taken Hollywood for millions of dollars in movie rights for what are pretty run-of-the-mill potboilers...