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...University of North Carolina's James A.Stimson, who was offered a senior position over ayear ago, doesn't find the lure of Harvardimpossible to resist either...
...also says she was intrigued to note thatstudents' responses to new ways of writing wasrelated to the ways students resist and adjust tocollege life...
...talk, double standards and political destruction. Buoyed by their odd conception of victory, they are launching Operation Perpetual Impeachment, targeting outspoken presidential critics for political extinction in 2000. For Republicans the temptation to do battle with them--for retribution, validation, vindication--will be enormous. But the G.O.P. needs to resist taking this bait and return to fighting over big issues, not small...
...Bruno, Calif., William McDonough saw it as a competition of ideas rather than for a contract. "Our idea," he says, "was that if a bird flew over the building, it would not know that anything had changed." If that sounds like pure eco-nut talk (I almost resist noting that McDonough is for the birds), try the question he puts to potential clients when he undertakes any of his architectural projects: "I ask, 'How do we love all children, all species, all time...
...course not! Hollywood expects us to resist the urge to express sincere feeling for or exchange passionate vows with a loved one; instead, we are supposed to immerse ourselves in the sappy melodrama of Playing by Heart, a film that explores the superficial relationships of photogenic Los Angelinos looking for love in all the wrong place. Playing by Heart does not just serve up a single silly, teary-eyed plot that is drawn out over an hour and half. Rather, you get six sappy stories of seemingly unrelated couples that are murderously extended for two full hours, a great deal...