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This time of year begs an evaluation of some sort, so—as head teaching fellow in the course—I’ve decided to grab a red pen and rate the mid-year performance of each pupil...
...maybe more. Because as 2002 gets underway, stocks are sluggish. Manufacturing is contracting. And whereas just last Friday a spate of economic reports - consumer confidence, housing, manufacturing - had investors writing in the recovery in pen, the first trading day of the new year is featuring the beginnings of a pretty stern reality check...
...POISON PEN What screenwriter doesn't dream of winning an Academy Award? Well, snap out of it. A Canadian study of every screenwriter ever considered for an Oscar shows that to win the golden guy--as opposed to being nominated--shortens life expectancy by 3.6 years. Last spring the same researchers found that actors who win live 3.9 years longer. Why the plot twist? Success seems to kill screenwriters because, unlike actors, they needn't worry about public scrutiny and are freer to smoke, sleep less and generally lead unhealthy lives...
...necessarily useful or even true, which may be why the book is so much fun. In rhyme, it narrates how items such as Frisbees and piggyback rides and potato chips were invented. Harper wrote and illustrated this book, her second, and she has a spry, zippy style with pen and with brush...
...courts, for instance, is lawmaking--Congress's job, under the Constitution--says A.C.L.U. legal director Steve Shapiro. But instead of asking Congress to pass a law authorizing military tribunals, the President issued an order that "allows the President to circumvent the civil justice system by the stroke of a pen." When defendants in these tribunals challenge their convictions by habeas corpus--if they can--they are sure to argue that the military courts were not established constitutionally...