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...ages, Spielberg was dismissed as the original toy boy of films--a movie machine, a thrill technician. At 53, he has finally won his share of Oscars. But he still wants to prove that his heart beats, not ticks. Even more, Spielberg needs to show that he can conquer daunting odds; so he runs with a project that a most assured and intimidating director couldn't quite bring himself to film. One might call this an act of devotion. Or possibly hubris...
...connected, some of them for more than a year. Many people try to speed things up by slipping a few dollars to the Telkom officials in charge of giving out new numbers. When I tried to get my first line connected just over two years ago, the technician told me it would take up to three months - unless, of course, I paid a "facilitation fee" of $100. I told him I would think about it and then, for some strange reason, I was connected the next day anyway. When he dropped by later that week he seemed quite upset that...
...success of all these reforms depends on the willingness of parents and schools to change. That's the mission of a weekly night class called Parent Partners held in Kings Mountain, N.C. At the close of a recent confessional-style session, Pressley Barrino, 38, a lighting technician and father of two, told how he made some mistakes with his first child, who spent time in reform school. He's doing things differently with his 8-year-old daughter Nakia--reading to her at night and helping with homework. He has even taken to dropping by her school during his lunch...
...fails to relate to the immediate needs of people like Walter Melendez, who pulls over to top off his tank whenever he sees his gas gauge drop below three-quarters of a tank. "I'm afraid it's going to be $4 next time," says Melendez, a computer technician in L.A., where radio waves are full of energy talk...
...Unlike her sister who hadn't really figured out what she wanted to do with her life, Sophie had worked as a cardiac technician at a local hospital for more than a year. She found the work rewarding. It probably also helped train her to react swiftly and with methodical detachment in a crisis...