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However, operating expenses are also subject to year-to-year variations...
...whites), but the subsequent fire storm suggests there must have been plenty. According to Patricia Turner, whose book I Heard It Through the Grapevine is a definitive study of how information spreads in black America, this is the first time the Internet has electrified African Americans about a subject that most whites and the national news media are only dimly aware of. The "Black Telegraph"--as some African Americans call the informal word-of-mouth network they've used to keep in touch with one another since the days of slavery--has moved into cyberspace...
ELLEN MORGAN, the subject of one of the ugliest and most controversial custody battles ever to pass through American courts, not to mention several books and a movie, may be able to return to the U.S. with her mother under unusual legislation passed in Congress last week. ELIZABETH MORGAN went to prison for two years rather than allow her daughter, then called Hilary Foretich, to visit her father Eric Foretich, who Elizabeth claims molested Ellen. He denies the claim. For the past seven years mother and daughter have been living in New Zealand. The tailor-made legislation will mean that...
...scraping each other's skin with their verbal aggressions. Since the late '80s he has worked on the big screen. Some of his films (High Hopes, Life Is Sweet, Naked) have earned him critics' awards and a small, passionate U.S. following. He has received museum retrospectives and is the subject of Michael Coveney's comprehensive, reverent biography The World According to Mike Leigh (HarperCollins). But Secrets & Lies could be his first movie to break through to a wide audience. It is easy to imagine dropping into a mall this fall and hearing America sob along with Cynthia...
...subject of broken appliances came up the other night because our television set seemed to be imploding. The closest I can come to describing what happened is to say that judging by the picture and the sound, some person or force seemed to have decided that our television set could benefit from some electroshock therapy, perhaps as a way of calming down those relentlessly chirpy people on the local news...