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Still, seniors should not jump into a career onWall Street just for the sake of getting a jobsomewhere, says OCS International ExperienceCounselor William G. Klingelhofer...

Author: By Nan Zheng, | Title: Seniors Begin to Wonder: Where To Go From Here? | 11/15/1993 | See Source »

...abducting and brutally murdering two-year-old James Bulger last February in Liverpool, and with the attempted abduction of another toddler the same day. The ghastliness of the case and the youth of the defendants shocked the nation and particularly Liverpool, where mobs demonstrated against the boys. For the sake of fairness, the trial was moved 20 miles north to Preston (about 220 miles northwest of London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dispatches: The Child Killers | 11/15/1993 | See Source »

...however, that she seeks a mass audience. "I find myself very much a commercial filmmaker. I really know that I want a big audience. I think in a quirky and funny and funky way, but I also know that I'm not thinking about that just for its own sake. I also think about it in a way that can be interpreted by a bigger audience. Because I want to reach them." In fact. Nair had a $30 million project lined up with Warner Brothers to make an epic movie about the life of Buddha. After a year of research...

Author: By Ajitha Reddy, | Title: MIRA NAIR | 11/11/1993 | See Source »

Making students more grade-conscious has several unfortunate effects: It make them that much more competitive, and it diverts attention from the process of acquiring knowledge for its own sake, and it discourages them from taking more than four classes...

Author: By Gil B. Lahav, | Title: The Grouping of Grades | 11/10/1993 | See Source »

...reproduce. When Mona sleeps with Michael one wonders what sort of being will come of their union. But the erotic tension and consummation of desire between Mona and Michael has no bearing on the novel at all. Their erotic play is nothing more than sex for sex's sake, an act empty of any real schematic significance. The coupling of Michael and Mona represents a storyline which Rice fails to address later in the novel, a real throwaway moment in the next. The elements with which to craft an appealing tale of the occult, then, are all present in Lasher...

Author: By Kelli RAE Patton, | Title: Overambitious Lasher a Loser | 11/4/1993 | See Source »

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