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...most of the action could be set around it, avoiding construction of tacky cardboard backdrops. He chose to juice up an incredibly staid courtroom scene in the luridly titled "Secrets of a Co-Ed" (1942) by combining a number of shots into one intricate 10-minute-long take, something unheard of in a "Poverty Row production...
Amid the frenzy, the market awarded astronomical valuations to dotcom companies that had never made a dime--and paid an unheard of 100 to 200 times earnings for true New Economy leaders like Cisco or Sun Microsystems or Dell Computer, whose stocks have since plunged some 50%. "The current growth rate of earnings won't support stocks with high valuations," says Hugh Johnson, chief investment officer for the investment firm First Albany. "That's why technology stocks are coming down so sharply...
...letting them give, or directing them towards, outstanding performances. It gives a voice to talented but (as yet) unrecognized performers, it challenges directors, it gives something new to audiences and it brings a greater sense of diversity to our theater community in general. Of course, it's not unheard of that a newcomer to the HRDC lands a major role. Gifted first-years can surely change a director's mind with a particularly outstanding audition. But as any actor will tell you, outstanding auditions are rare even for the most talented performers. Thus, by virtue of little more than Harvard...
International attention is finally being focused on Kostunica, a 56-year-old lawyer who is backed by 18 opposition parties. Kostunica has stylized himself as a moderate nationalist and a firm proponent of democratic principles. The voices of Serbs have indeed gone unheard long enough. Kostunica would be wise to use this moment in the limelight to convince Serbs and the international community of his commitment to a real, working democracy. It is about time for a new, more peaceful chapter in Yugoslavia's troubling history...
What drew someone from such a stable background to the study of marital distress? At the end of the 1960s, Wallerstein, whose Ph.D. is in clinical psychology, moved from Topeka, Kans., in the ho-hum heartland, to swinging California. "Divorce was almost unheard of in the Midwest," she recalls. Not so on the Gold Coast, the state had just passed its pioneering no-fault divorce law. Wallerstein took a job consulting at a large community mental-health center in Marin County just as the social dam began to crack. "We started to get complaints," she says, "from nursery school teachers...