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...Emperor Louis-Napoléon was stumbling into the calamities of war and revolution. Eventually art would imitate life; all the old orders would come crashing down; and Manet, Monet and Cézanne would emerge from the wreckage. King's account of that all-important crack-up is full of smart pleasures...
...lymphoma; in New York City. As one of five siblings in a brainy, high-achieving family, she looked at pop culture and asked, "Where are the girls?" In plays like Uncommon Women and Others and the Pulitzer-prizewinning The Heidi Chronicles, she provided the answer with textured portraits of smart, sometimes self-doubting feminists struggling in the wake of the 1960s with competing urges for independence and intimacy. It was familiar ground for the Tony winner who, resisting pleas from her parents, remained steadfastly single. She gave birth at 48 and chronicled her daughter's premature delivery and months...
...Prices move up and down based on demand, and players earn dividends based on their statistics. For instance, shares in Shaun Alexander, left, rose steadily this season, as he helped the Seattle Seahawks reach the Super Bowl. The market is still in its infancy, but it's already rewarding smart "virtual" investments with cash prizes...
Like a schoolyard bully short on cash, the Bush administration has decided to steal lunch money from the smart kids’ piggy banks. In the face of the burgeoning U.S. budget deficit and Republicans’ penchant for tax cuts, something had to give—and higher education did. Under the budget legislation passed by the U.S. House of Representatives on Feb. 1, student loan programs face a net cut of approximately $12 billion, which will lead to a rise in interest rates to 6.8 percent for student loans and 8.5 percent for parent loans by this July...
...measures also include the creation of new Science and Mathematics Access to Retain Talent (SMART) Grants for students majoring in “science, math, technology, engineering, or a foreign language determined to be critical to the national security of the United States,” according to the legislation...