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After languishing for years in TV- movieland, most of the West Beverly High class of '93--that is, the original cast of Beverly Hills, 90210--scored new shows this season. Next up is Tori Spelling, whose sitcom so noTORIous debuts April 2. We rate their success on a counterintuitive scale of cracked TVs: one TV means they've gone on to great (O.K., good) things. Four TVs? Back to detention...
...ought to turn away from ineffective, damaging parental involvement stipulations and search instead for efficacious and socially responsible policies that can serve their common interest. Instead of ignoring sex—only focusing on the before and after—they ought to couple abstinence-based education with wide-scale instruction on safer sex and make emergency contraception—which prevents the need to terminate a pregnancy—more widely available to those under 18. To ensure that “abortion is not the only economically feasible option” for impoverished women, advocates from both sides...
...certain historical sense, quaint. The high chancellor’s government killed almost one hundred thousand people? Amateurs! Even the half-baked Khmer Rouge killed over two million, while the Soviets would have considered a hundred thousand dead a mere warm-up. That we can not imagine the true scale of evil capable of being wrought by mankind is telling, far more telling than anything on display in “V for Vendetta.” Mark A. Adomanis ’07, a Crimson editorial editor, is a government concentrator in Eliot House...
...large robust corporations that can export their way out of trouble. Many of the thousands of small and medium-size companies that once gave the Italian economy its flexibility and dynamism are poorly equipped to deal with the challenges of a fast-changing world. Most don't have the scale, the funding or the commercial know-how to become global players. What they produce is beautiful, but it's neither particularly sophisticated nor difficult to replicate. In other words, Italy's economic structure is almost perfectly composed for an attack by China, which excels in moderately sophisticated manufacturing...
...district have fewer than 20 employees, while just a dozen have more than 50, according to a study by Professor Roberto Grandinetti of the University of Padua. Local bankers say all but a few are sorely undercapitalized and lack the resources to build their business to a global scale. And virtually no one has much experience selling to customers other than the big German distributors that once snapped up as much as 70% of the district's output. Says Giovanni Masarotti, president of the Manzano chair district and chief executive of Montina, one of its oldest firms...