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Laiou's is the fifth tenured appointment made by the department within the past two years. The rash of appointments stems from the department's desire to fill spots vacated by professors who either died of left, David J. Herlihy, Lea Professor of Medieval History, said yesterday...
However, after this week's rash of abstentions, Kenneth Propp, a second-year Law student and the ACSR's Law School representative, said. "It's unlikely that the Corporation will respond positively to further study in these areas by the ACSR--students should draw their own conclusions from that...
Justice was swift in the Old West; vengeance is mined in the New Hollywood. United Artists, which had rashly built the film's publicity campaign on the hope of rave reviews, withdrew Heaven's Gate in the wake of devastating pans. And the rash spread. Within days, all Hollywood was being held responsible for one director's profligacy, one studio's negligence. Every big-budget movie was the target of japery: Robert Evans' Popeye became "Evans' Gate," Warren Beatty's forthcoming Reds was "Warren's Gate...
Less than two months after the march down Beacon Street, the cause of truth brought Shaw and his men to the beach beneath Fort Wagner, which guarded the harbor entrance to Charleston. Shaw volunteered to lead the attack. Perhaps he was rash. Perhaps his commanders regarded his troops as fodder, expendable. Intelligence reports claimed that Shaw's 600 men outnumbered the defenders 2 to 1. Exactly the reverse was true. Even after a heavy Union bombardment, Confederate soldiers remained strongly entrenched behind their palmetto barriers. As darkness fell on July 18, 1863, Shaw spoke quietly to his troops...
With inflation and recession come managerial convulsions. Five of the seven major studios have suffered abrupt changes of management in the past two years. The rash of new production outfits, born in the flush of Star Wars and Grease profits a few years ago, either have folded or are struggling to survive. The U.S. Congress disallowed most no-risk tax shelters, which once offered the hope of a quick buck for producers and a long write-off for investors, and 19 states have outlawed blind bidding, which allowed studios to extract money commitments from theater owners for an unseen product...