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...initial story on Monica Lewinsky and landed on a missile cruiser off the coast of Bahrain to detail the American military buildup against Iraq. This week Ratnesar returns to the classroom for our cover story on homework. "Reporting on education is always intriguing," he says, "because while we seem able to reach a loose consensus on other social issues, people can't agree on the most basic questions about education, such as how much homework kids should receive." Of his own education history, Ratnesar says, "I didn't take homework very seriously. I never won the award for the best...
...film The Blue Lagoon, BROOKE SHIELDS and CHRISTOPHER ATKINS were such comely castaways that they managed to make natural childbirth and trapping your own dinner seem enticing. But while Shields' career blossomed, Atkins' seemed marooned (unless you count Beaks: the Movie or Dead Man's Island). Soon, however, he'll reunite with civilization, and Shields, on an upcoming episode of Suddenly Susan. No longer a hunter-gatherer, Atkins plays Tony, a bridge columnist whom Susan meets at a journalism convention and pursues to get even with her ex-boyfriend. Alas, Tony is impervious to her advances. Perhaps she neglected...
...every word. Dench attributes this potency not to her own skill but to the deference the film's other characters show her. John Madden, who directed her in both Mrs. Brown and Shakespeare, knows better. "She has this amazing accessibility," he says. "She could make Attila the Hun seem sympathetic...
...investor, I want a smattering of both old and new U.S. tech stocks, even if the prices of some Net stocks are overinflated to adolescent values. While it may seem counterintuitive to think of Intel as old tech, the market values hardware makers by a much more stringent standard than the newer Net businesses. Even though Intel and Seagate, the largest maker of personal-computer disk drives, signaled that sales are extremely robust, they are still in an industry that will be lucky to grow 20% in 1999. Yahoo, by contrast, is in a business that seems to double every...
...political influence: the so-called Empiricists, a dry, hard-headed bunch who do their jobs with scientific precision; and the Intuitionists like Watson, who work by instinct, by feel. James Fulton, the Intuitionists' patron saint, is a deceased pioneer of "verticality" whose books contain cryptic, Masonic meditations that seem to address the nature of life: "We conform to objects, we capitulate to them. We need to reverse this order...