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Last year, when Hollywood shot its wad on steroid spectacles, and the $60 million budget became a ho-hum affair, movie-goers provided a surprise punch line to the financial joke the industry had been playing on itself. For the first time in moguls' memory, none of the top three hits were an action adventure with a big male star. Ghost and Pretty Woman were romantic fantasies angled to women; Home Alone, the year's box-office winner, starred a nine- year-old boy. These modest movies were old-fashioned sleepers, whose success suggested a future for women's movies...
...Eagles also get significant offensive production from their blueliners. Sophomore defender Ted Crowley (11-17--28) is the team's fourth-leading scorer and Joe Cleary, Jr. (3-14--17) provides some punch from the point. Both defenders have done well to get the puck out of the B.C. zone and up to the wings...
...industries reeling under the one-two punch of recession and war, none have been hit as hard as the travel business. Across the U.S. last week, airports were eerily quiet. Rumors of terrorist plots were rife; some companies took the opportunity to cut back on travel in the midst of the recession, knowing that the competition would be following suit. This week, in an unprecedented move, most U.S. department-store fashion directors, magazine fashion editors and Seventh Avenue buyers will stay home from the annual couture collections in Paris. The shutdown of European travel...
...coalition partners are also worried that a lethal knockout punch to Saddam would turn him into an even greater hero on the Arab street than he already is. And though the allies view their campaign in the gulf as just, there are moral limits to the conduct of war, even when confronting an opponent who behaves as despicably as Saddam. "Military professionals have a very strong sense of what distinguishes the work they do from butchering," says Michael Walzer, a professor of social science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J. "It is a moral sense, even though...
...offensive punch in the Quaker lineup, however, is supplied by guards Paul McMahon and Ken Graf, who combine for almost 25 points a game. A third guard, Paul Chambers, rounds out the Penn starting five...