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Undergraduate Council residential committee members who support the bill said they believe the controversy surrounding Powell would ruin the graduation ceremony for many people...
...fear of Ovitz and CAA in Hollywood is intense and practically universal, though perhaps not wholly warranted. The hot screenwriter Joe Eszterhas says Ovitz threatened to ruin him when he switched to ICM 3 1/2 years ago, but his writing fees have kept climbing. CAA client Michael Douglas appeared in his Basic Instinct, and CAA tried to get its clients cast in Eszterhas' forthcoming Sliver. In late 1991 Wall Street Journal reporter Richard Turner co-wrote a devastating article about Ovitz's overenthusiastic involvement in a penny-ante company pushing QSound, an unsuccessful audio technology. Ovitz apparently sputtered...
...Baghdad's art galleries hang heartrending depictions of slaughter, ruin and misery, painted since the Gulf War. On the sidewalks, poor families sell their meager household goods to procure enough money to eat. In the back alleys, women offer their bodies for sale -- an extreme act of desperation in Muslim society -- and men steal cars or rob their neighbors' houses...
WITH MORE THAN 3,000 POLITICAL DEATHS, 1992 was one of the bloodiest years in South African history -- bloody enough so that the threat of more violence and economic ruin has finally brought politicians to their senses. Seven months after negotiations collapsed, the African National Congress approved a compromise with President F.W. de Klerk's National Party that would establish a government with a guaranteed white minority for up to five years. Says A.N.C. Secretary General Cyril Ramaphosa: "This is the proposal that will break the deadlock...
...they may be more willing than their male colleagues to take love seriously. Says Elaine Hatfield, the author of Love, Sex, and Intimacy: Their Psychology, Biology, and History: "When I was back at Stanford in the 1960s, they said studying love and human relationships was a quick way to ruin my career. Why not go where the real work was being done: on how fast rats could run?" Whatever the reasons, science seems to have come around to a view that nearly everyone else has always taken for granted: romance is real. It is not merely a conceit...