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...phone lines were swamped once again, this time by users requesting refunds. Many of them were angry at being kept on hold for long periods, but state regulators pronounced themselves satisfied. Most analysts also seemed unconcerned. Said Lehman Brothers analyst Brian Oakes: "I think we've passed the peak of the problems with both the busy signals and the refund calls. There's always an initial wave...
Second, fix the gaps in the shuttle schedule. Here is what to change, all referring to vans leaving from Currier House: 1) Double up on vans at peak times such as 9:50 and 9:55 a.m. 2) Run two buses on weekend mornings and afternoons so that the wait is less than 40 minutes. 3) Fill the gap between 2:10 and 4:20 p.m. on weekend afternoons. 4) Run a shuttle between 12:40 and 12:55 p.m. 5) Fix the break in service between 9:55 and 10:25 p.m. from the Square to the Quad...
MOVIES . . . . DANTE'S PEAK: "Disaster movies are our millennial No plays, totally stylized, totally predictable, but comforting in their familiarity," says TIME's Richard Schickel. "Whether the threat to domestic tranquillity is a ferocious shark, invading spacemen or a rogue volcano (as in Dante's Peak), it reassures us that nice people, if they are smart, brave and quick on their feet, will somehow survive." Writer Leslie Bohem and director Roger Donaldson brush briskly through the standard scientific and romantic blather. They know that in movies like this, complexity is the province of the special-effects people...
...enthralling new documentary, 'He fused politics and sport.' Ali?s conversion to the Black Muslims tested white America's fondness for him. His refusal to serve in the Army made him the Vietnam War?s most famous conscientious objector and deprived him of work for three years at the peak of his craft. Then Ali returned to lose the heavyweight belt to Joe Frazier. Leon Gast's documentary details the next step in Ali's career: Act III of a great and poignant pageant. This was the Rumble in the Jungle, the 1974 fight with George Foreman in Zaire...
...most local sites of any commerical network. Even during the summer during peak times, I would have to try two numbers, maybe three, before I'd find one [that was open]," he says...