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...think that the payment should be increased somewhat but that the universities should also support their students and faculty members becoming more involved in helping fill city needs...
...terrorist, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) conducted a poll and claims it received good news: most folks believe the agency is doing a decent job. According to the poll, which has not yet been published, about 90% of respondents who had recently flown said security at airports was "somewhat better to much better" than it was before 9/11. It's easy to see why. The federal screeners scanning our bodies, bags and shoes are often infallibly polite, and in their starched white shirts and pressed pants, they appear more savvy than those privately employed workers who could look more bleary...
...owned plant in Tampa, Fla., in 1929, where the Cuban-American workers have just hired a new "lector" to read novels to them while they work. Cigar smoke, however, is only one of the sweet and strange aromas that waft from Anna in the Tropics. Written in the lyrical, somewhat formalized language of a folktale, the play is both a slice of cultural history (such lectors, paid for by the workers, were common in Cuban-American factories until the early 1930s, when the owners banned them as subversive influences) and a warm-spirited tribute to the transformative power...
...Gibson, wearing a bald wig and a manner both fussy and insistent, is wonderful as the psychiatrist who restores Dark to a semblance of health. Robin Wright Penn is equally compelling as Dark's estranged, emotionally ambiguous wife. And it's good to be in touch, even in a somewhat diminished form, with one of the most potent works of modern pop culture. --By Richard Schickel
...they're doing--whatever they're supposed to be doing--Packer students are in constant high-bandwidth contact with the school, with one another and with the Internet at large. In essence, Packer has added an invisible fourth dimension to its campus. But life in the fourth dimension is somewhat different from what the Packer's faculty anticipated. Can education survive the age of nonstop information...