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Once upon a time, being a tenured professor at Harvard meant being set for life. An established Faculty member could count on a long career of teaching and research at the nation's pre-eminent institution and a salary that led the pack...
...refugees had already come face to face with the devils. In many villages early last week, Serb paramilitaries surrounded Albanian homes, broke down doors and ordered villagers to pack up and go. Some refugees said they were lined up and commanded to yell "Serbia! Serbia!" and give the three-finger Serb victory salute. "Go to Albania. That's your country," Serb troops told a group of ethnic Albanians hiding in Mamusa, a village 22 miles from the Albanian border. "And say hello to Bill Clinton. You will never see Kosovo again." Serb paramilitary forces were said to have committed grisly...
...billion, you can afford to collect Gulfstreams, Ferraris and yachts. But last week Jeff Bezos, the founder of e-tailing dynamo Amazon.com had his sights set a little lower. Like millions of Internet surfers searching for their favorite obscure trinkets, Bezos joined an online auction, bidding for a pack of 1977 Star Wars trading cards. Alas, the buying force was not with him. He dropped out when the price got too high...
...eagerly building on their legacy. On one of his new songs, the insistent I Want to Talk to You, he attacks Congress, the President and various public officials, exhorting them to do something, anything, about the conditions of the inner city. In doing so, Nas breaks out of the pack of contemporary rappers. He's not just identifying problems. He's demanding solutions...
...that's in rewrites, and she has the leading role in a studio film. All of which makes her remarkably similar to the 289,000 other adolescents currently jockeying to be Hollywood's next big thing. Surely you've noticed how each weekend brings scores of cheaply made movies packed with TV kids from the WB or Fox networks (see previous review). Stiles thinks it's unfair to stereotype the genre. "Some teen movies really suck, while others are really good but get a bad rap," she says, adding that the same dictum holds for young actors. To break...