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...Time to Kill," director Joel Schumacher brings us a solid, slightly above-average film version of the popular John Grisham novel. Emerging unscathed, Grisham's blood-lust plot acquires illustration through film more than illumination: the actors have occasion to shine, but often we feel the textbook provocation of the story itself doing much of the work...
Phillips Brooks House, which devoted itself to selling war bonds, sponsoring blood drives and serving as a combination day care and center for Navy wives, slowly began to return to peacetime functions. The speakers committee, undergraduate faculty tutors, social service committee and textbook loan library all returned...
...have given some economists reason to switch sides in the wage debate. "The negative effects are not significant at the level at which the minimum wage is being raised," contends Joseph Stiglitz, chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, who argued against the minimum wage in a textbook he wrote in 1993. Last October about 100 other economists who share his view, including three Nobel laureates, announced their support for President Clinton's plan to raise the wage 90'--from $4.25 to $5.15--over 15 months...
...measure, which had been expected to pass, was sent back to committee.) Similarly, the school board of Hall County, Georgia, just outside Atlanta, ruled last month that teachers must put forward a variety of theories on the origin of life, not just evolution. Beginning next fall, all biology textbooks in Alabama must have a disclaimer inserted stating that evolution is a "controversial theory" accepted by "some scientists." And school boards in Washington State and Ohio are considering adopting a textbook titled Of Pandas and People, which contains something that would make an evolutionist squirm on virtually every page...
...occurred to me then that the massive downsizing and unemployment we are experiencing looks very much like what the textbook described as the short-term effects of a healthy long-term growth in productivity, real wages and standard of living. I rushed to the library to reread The New York Times, in the hope of finding some indication that my line of thought had been considered by some optimistic pundit. Alas, I found nothing but gloom and doom in the articles themselves. But in a sidebar that featured the opinions of various experts in business and economics, I found...