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Because for a lot of people, the nip in the air, the shortening evenings and the fading leaves on the ground glare like warning sign of things to come. Nature drives you indoors, and for the most part John Q. Public can only flounder helplessly in front of his television and his fireplace...
Stocks rose and bonds fell as the Federal Reserve decided not to raise interest rates at a meeting of the Open Market Committee Tuesday. Many analysts had predicted the Fed would hike both the Federal Funds and Discount rates by a half point in order to nip inflationary pressures in the bud. But though the Fed did not act at its latest meeting, look for at least one further rate increase --the sixth this year -- at its next meeting Nov. 15, which is conveniently right after the midterm elections. Following the announcement that rates will stay...
...comes the script doctor. "They bring you in with the idea you're just going to do a nip and a tuck," Strick says. "They say it's two weeks' work on one character. Four months later, you're still on the picture." While on the job, you must be, in the words of talent agent Jeremy Zimmer, "an artist, a technician and a diplomat" -- jobs that may be mutually exclusive. The trick, Whedon says, is to "know how to please people without turning work into junk...
...alumnus of The Crimson editorial board, I am astonished and appalled by Stephen E. Frank's recent column, "Hitler's Russian Protege" (April 7, 1994), declaring that the Russian anti-Semitic politician Vladimir Zhirinovsky ought to be assassinated. Frank's shaded declaration that it would "be more prudent to nip [Zhirinovsky's] aspirations in the bud" is as sleazy a call for murder as one is likely to find in a publication that has pretensions to respectability. (And I wonder: after Zhirinovsky, whose is the next name on Frank's `hit list'--and the next?) Indeed, I am even more...
...murder and those who do the deed. Perhaps I don't see it Frank's way because I lead an Expository Writing study group on the life and career of John F. Kennedy '40--and so I know that in 1963 someone decided it would "be more prudent to nip his aspirations in the bud," too. But I don't think so. What I do think is that Frank's column is the ugliest violation of what is supposed to be the bedrock rule of membership in an academic community: a commitment to civil discourse. And I also think that...