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...does not let that binder his creativity. He uses the routine of writing to bypass his critical faculties. "I just try to work every morning." Flaubert said, "Inspiration consists of sitting down at the same table at the same time every day. That's wonderful, because it's so plain and takes all the sort of breathiness out of it. And Flaubert was a very great writer, don't you think...

Author: By Amanda Schaffer, | Title: On Plants and Poems: | 5/14/1993 | See Source »

...perfect balance between her waitressing obligations and her housecleaning ones. After all, the problem of these Harvard women could simply be the yuppie, baby-boomer hubris that says this generation of upscale Americans is going to make easy what their parents found hard. Or it could be just plain Harvard hubris. "In the Harvard community," says Suzanne Braun Levine, a Radcliffe graduate and editor of the Columbia Journalism Review, "there is such a historic sense of people with a need to overachieve and with a streak of self-criticism. A lot of people feel that they didn't achieve everything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Maternal Wall | 5/10/1993 | See Source »

...affidavits also show that the ATF had compelling evidence that the Feb. 28 raid should have been called off. Testimony from an ATF agent makes plain that Koresh knew of the raid in advance -- and that top ATF officials were alerted to this before it got under way. Top officials, who steadily maintained that they had launched the raid unaware that Koresh had been forewarned, are now shifting tack. "The element of surprise does not mean they don't know you're coming. Only that they can't take control," says ATF intelligence chief David Troy. That explanation does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Waco Siege Feb. 28: Sent into a Deathtrap? | 5/3/1993 | See Source »

...Bruce Havelock (actor Eric), had roles in only the dream sequences. Zikherman wasn't expressive or endearing in her role as Ellen and gave little definition to her role as the dream dancer. Havelock had very little to do. But Gretarsdottir was solid in executing the role of the plain-speaking and overtly caring friend Jane...

Author: By Lawrence M. Brown, | Title: Sweet Dreams | 4/29/1993 | See Source »

Epidemiological studies, those which collect cast amounts of data useful in predicting risks, are also utilized by some scientists to determine the causes of breast cancer. Dr. Susan I. Troyan, a breast surgeon and director of research at the Faulkner Hospital in Jamaica Plain, is one such researcher...

Author: By Virginia A. Triant, | Title: Struggling for Earlier Detection, Better Treatment | 4/27/1993 | See Source »

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