Word: milles
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William Bennett writes that "a good college will separate the great texts and the important ideas from the run-of-the-mill and offer the best to its students and that offering will be the institution's vision of a truly educated person...
...topic that has to do with the movies is fair game. Is there too much violence in modern American cinema? Is Oliver Stone a conspiracy-minded twit? Who is the best new director? Whatever happened to Pia Zadora? All these topics and more are grist for this future columnal mill...
...search committee member says both insiders and outsiders remain on the list, but will name no names. In the meantime, the rumor mill churns out the usual suspects...
...street urchin in 1924. Jaded beyond his years, with a side-of-the-mouth style of flip talk ("Well, shave my tonsils"), Walt recalls meeting the mysterious Master Yehudi, the man who would change his life: "We were standing in front of the Paradise Cafe, a slick downtown gin mill." "You're no better than an animal," the master greets him. "If you come with me, I'll teach...
...shopping malls, not even a McDonald's or a Wal-Mart. In fact, business in Lake Providence, Louisiana, is so bad that even the pawnshop has shut down. "The only recreation we have," says a resident, "is poor people's fun: drinking, drugs, fighting and sex." Restless teenagers mill around narrow streets lined with burned-out houses and dilapidated trailer parks. "We've got all the problems they have in New York and Chicago, but nothing to fight them with," says Mayor James W. Brown Jr. If there is a poorer place in America, the Census Bureau cannot find...