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...scale, as in Richard III, cram the screen with ingenious murders. Everyone says that if Shakespeare were alive today, he'd have been a screenwriter. But would he be Joe Eszterhas? Would he have shown one of his characters enjoying fellatio--then gasping in horror as a dagger, thrust upward by an assassin hiding under the bed, suddenly emerges through the victim's chest...
Liberals dreamed of making things better. They believed human beings, if not perfectible, were at least subject to improvement. History moved positively, onward and upward. The role of government was to engineer progress by spending public money for the common good. Social problems like poverty could be cured through government action...
Investors roared back from yesterday's selling frenzy, reacting to the Fed's decision to cut a key interest rate by pushing the Dow Jones industrial average up 34.68 points, to end the day at 5,109.89. The Dow's surge upward gained back more than a third of the loss it suffered Monday. The New York Stock Exchange was also up 2.05 to end the day at 325.71. On the Big Board, advancers led decliners 1,526 to 916, with 678 unchanged. Technology shares bounced back Tuesday, as the technology-heavy Nasdaq composite index jumped 23.82 points to close...
...Grade inflation is a problem in that it's something that is happening," says Christopher P. Jones, professor of classics and history and a member of the CUE. "Over the past twenty or so years there's been an upward shift in grades given at Harvard. If that's a problem or that's just something that happens, I'm not sure...
...Jones industrial average continued its charge upward Tuesday, closing with its 67th record of the year. The Dow rose 37.93 to reach 5,177.45. The New York Stock Exchange composite index also closed at a record high for the second consecutive day, finishing at 329.79, up 2.19. Trading was heavy with 434.00 million shares exchanged. The Standard & Poor's 500 stocks also had another record closing, up 4.00 to 617.68. The American Stock Exchange market value index gained 1.08 to 539.41. The technology-heavy Nasdaq composite index lost 3.49 to end the day at 1,066.30. In London, gold closed...