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...making the characters sufficiently three-dimensional to earn our empathy. We really learn only one or two things about each of them: that Warren's never gotten over his breakup with Daphne; that Jake's still struggling to say "I love you" to Margaret; and that Leigh hasn't outgrown being the baby of the family, though she's found time for an unaccountable but placid crush on Elliot...
Meanwhile the Russians seem to be falling in love with economics. This is because Russia still has to indoctrinate the fundamentals of economic theory into its people. We have outgrown this need and have found that modern Americans have very little use for highly abstract and sophisticated theories that fail to explain reality. In order for Russia's transition to a free-market system to be both permanent and stable, grounding economic theories in its children seems to be a must. American children know it naturally; Russian children must be taught it. So while it may strike us as strange...
...campaign, the Harvard community may not be completely aware of all that it means for DEAS. According to Dean of the College (and Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science) Harry R. Lewis '68, the gift is a crucial boost to an area of the College that has all but outgrown its current lodgings...
...used clothing to needy children, is no longer in existence. On the contrary, it is still an integral part of the way we do business. In the past four years we have donated 400,000 pieces of clothing to children. Customers send us the "Hannas" that their children have outgrown, and they get a 20% credit toward their next purchase. The children who receive our clothes are able to hold up their head a little higher. When a company is forced to reduce its work force, it does not automatically follow that it will also abandon social programs, even...
...been taking acting classes for five years. "The guy's such a chameleon." He plans to fit more movies around his music tours, but Sly Stallone can relax: Bon Jovi won't do action. "I watched too much Wile E. Coyote as a kid," he says. "I've outgrown it." SEEN & HEARD...