Word: pools
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...farm, Duvall is a gentleman farmer who has just finished renovating a barn into a posh party space, with a bar, a pool table and, of course, a dance floor. He can afford it. October Films paid $6 million for U.S. rights to The Apostle. He also earns a nice paycheck on gigs like this year's Deep Impact (sci-fi with Morgan Freeman) and A Civil Action (courtrooms with John Travolta). That leaves something in the bank for his own projects; he and Thornton are planning a Merle Haggard biopic. "The best of it all," he says...
Harvard needs junior faculty in Afro-American Studies. It has none. Harvard must make a serious effort to increase the pool of scholars in the field and others like it. It hasn...
This problematic trend stretches far beyond Harvard, of course; the entire application season has become preempted by early applications, which alter the competitiveness of a school's applicant pool and its financial aid picture...
Harvard, as a leading school in early and regular applicants, can provide some lessons. The early pool is also less diverse than the regular pool, especially in the number of African-Americans (only 5 percent of those admitted to the Class of 2002 were African-American, compared with an average of 11 percent within the current undergraduate classes)--a glaring distortion...
Some photographers are the poets of purple mountains' majesty. Some are the poets of the placid suburbs. Weegee is the poet of small-timers who died facedown on a city pavement at 3 a.m. in a pool of their own blood. And petty mobsters. He was great at petty mobsters--half the guys in his pictures look as if their nickname was Mugsy. As one of the most unabashed tabloid-news photographers, Weegee was also supremely good at car crashes, dazed escapees from tenement fires, transvestites being hustled out of paddy wagons, and Peeping Tom shots of lovers wrestling...