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...nearly as fun as its provocative title. The majority of the essays bear names with an Ivy League pedigree, and taken individually, are lucid and forthright. However, the collection lacks the sparkle of the overarching theme. Sternberg perhaps promises too much by trying to coax life from authors who suffer from a terminal excess of terminology. Though their explanations are educated, each essay that actually tackles the prescribed question proposes new working definitions to frame an answer...
...expressed concern that the proposed Asian Languages and Civilizations department would be too broad and that despite new professors, South Asian studies might suffer from a lack of emphasis within the new department...
Vivendi is just the latest media giant to suffer synergy shock. Sixteen months ago, when he bought the assets of the Seagram Co.--including Universal's movie studio, theme parks and music group--and merged them with Vivendi's European media and telecom holdings, Messier promised a company that "will be the world's preferred creator and provider of personalized information, entertainment and services to consumers anywhere, at any time and across all distribution platforms and devices...
...prepubescent children. Dr. John Bradford, a University of Ottawa psychiatrist who has spent 23 years studying pedophilia--which is listed as an illness in the manual psychiatrists use to make diagnoses--estimates its prevalence at maybe 4% of the population. (Those attracted to teenagers are sometimes said to suffer "ephebophilia," but perhaps because so many youth-obsessed Americans would qualify, psychiatrists don't classify ephebophilia as an illness...
...towns were covered and others were not. Paetec is also expected to offer lower long distance rates when it assumes responsibility for Harvard’s network, which will be a big relief for students who now are more often turning to cell phones and calling cards rather than suffer HSTO’s astronomical rates. By folding this phone service into the room rate, the added cost should be covered by many federal and College-sponsored financial aid programs...