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...packed up her stuff and moved to the West Coast. Just a few months before, Lidskog never would have believed her fate. “I was looking into I-banking and consulting,” she says. “But I also knew that I loved to perform.” As she sat in the Barker Center drinking coffee one day a friend told her about the “Jeopardy” contest. Instantly she set about making her three-minute videotape. She set up the camera by the Charles and, while getting strange stares from...
...renovaions had gone with the original timetable, the 154th show would have been displaced to rehearse and perform in a rented space...
...recruit locals in countries like Afghanistan, where the U.S. has no embassy, or Pakistan, where the native spooks keep close tabs on official Americans. Ever since a 1995 uproar about the CIA's use of Guatemalan informants linked to torture and murder, the agency has been required to perform "human rights" checks on its assets. Last week George H.W. Bush criticized the restriction. "We have to free up the intelligence system from some of its constraints," he said. The spy game is "kind of a dirty business, and you have to deal with a lot of unsavory people...
...strong backlash. As a result, the video was edited for content before being rebroadcast. Despite big budgets and famous Hollywood stars, Jackson’s cutting-edge videos were no longer the events they had once been. Although Dangerous bought forth several No. 1 singles, the album failed to perform as well as its predecessors, leading many critics to predict that his career was on the ebb. His new appearance won him little sympathy, while the children of the 1980s had mostly grown up and moved on. Jackson was in fact a cliché whose time was coming...
WORK ETHIC College students who hold part-time jobs perform better academically than those who either work full time or don't work at all, according to a study by Upromise, a Massachusetts administrator of college-savings plans. The study suggests that working 10 hours a week or less more frequently cuts into nonproductive activities like watching TV than keeps students from their homework. Full-timers, though, are more likely to drop...