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...they have, almost alone, kept alive what in Cohn's day was one of Hollywood's more agreeable genres: the handsomely made, well-acted literary-historical drama. These movies reflected the cultural aspirations of producers like Irving Thalberg and David O. Selznick while serving the needs of that portion of the audience not enamored of car chases and tommy-gun fire...
More than half of the applicant pool scoredover 700 on the math portion of the SAT, and morethan 6,000 applicants had a combined SAT score1,400 or more
...best-read sections of Usenet is alt.sex, a newsgroup so popular it has spawned more than 60 offshoots, from alt.sex.bestiality.barney to alt.sex.woody-allen. Half a dozen other Usenet groups also store free, X-rated images that users can download and view on their computers. On the multimedia portion of the Internet known as the Web, Penthouse and others serve up free, frontally nude cyber-pinups. Those sites are frequently jammed beyond capacity. (Last year a Carnegie Mellon graduate student surveying sex on the Internet determined that 450,620 pornographic images and text files had been downloaded 6,432,297 times...
...knows exactly what portion of the welfare rolls is made up of refugees from domestic violence, but knowledgeable estimates are startlingly high. In preliminary research on a small sample of Chicago welfare recipients, Susan Lloyd at Northwestern University found nearly half mentioned abusive relationships as a factor in their need for welfare. Arlene McAtee, associate director of Mid-Iowa Community Action, estimates three-quarters of the women she sees come to welfare as a way out of domestic violence. And in some surveys of women in homeless shelters, half the respondents say they're homeless because they fled from...
...break with other federal courts, a judge in Wisconsin struck down a portion of the 1994 federal abortion-clinic-access law. Judge Rudolph Randa said a section of the law that bans nonviolent physical obstruction of clinics is unconstitutional. The ruling is likely to be appealed...