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...large. Further-more, if Seton and council Vice-President Kamil E. Redmond '00 stand by their courageous plan to deliver the pledge by dumping $30,000 worth of pennies in the administrative offices of the University, they just migt incite the kind of student activism that sucessful councils thrive...
Moore recalls the abundance of used bookstores in the Harvard Square of yore. He says McIntyre & Moore would thrive in any community full of artists and students, plenty of trendy bars, theaters, restaurants and places to hear live music. His description matches the old stereotype of Harvard Square...
Actresses with a wide range like Polley's thrive at Sundance because many movies there take risks with compelling, quirky characters. Where Hollywood favors vapid females whose greatest apotheosis is a kiss, indies prefer complex women who can also kick butt. "Independent films almost have a province when it comes to portraying strong women," says festival programming chief Geoffrey Gilmore. "They're not just the archetypal roles of the girlfriend, the wife or even the women who get together to cry. Actresses get to play the kind of fully fleshed-out characters who just aren't in most studio scripts...
Companies such as Quiksilver, which now trades on the N.Y.S.E., have proved that it's possible to grow up and thrive. Others, such as Mossimo, show that you can grow up and screw up too. For Volcom, the business plan does not go much further than staying core--and respecting that stone. "I'm living the life that I always dreamed of living," says Woolcott. "Nobody's getting rich. Nobody owns a house. But I know that low tide is in about 45 minutes, and I'm gonna go surfing." At 10 a.m. on a Thursday, that's core...
...alarmists have no such concerns about how their post-millennium credibility will stand. The impulse to find signs of the Second Coming and all its attendant disasters is a durable one. It can thrive in the face of continuing disappointments. All the same, in the probable event that the world does not come undone next year, academics like Richard Landes, director of Boston University's Center for Millennial Studies, expect that alarmists "will be totally discredited. Millennialism will fade rapidly." His group has a theme chosen for the 2002 edition of the International Conference on Millennialism: "Millennial Disappointment...