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...wager is with Lucinda Leplastrier (the luminous and spunky Cate Blanchett), also a gambling addict. For her, gambling is a way of asserting herself against gentility and separating herself from some of the money she has inherited but doesn't really want. Equally unlikely for a woman of her time, she is an industrialist. That church is a product of her glass factory, and it is intended as reparation to another clergyman who has been exiled for being seen in her raffish company...
...average training is nil; and there are few standards to speak of. There is massive burnout and turnover. Day care at the work site is rare. And although most juvenile crime occurs between the hours of 3 p.m. and 7 p.m.--as do many teenage pregnancies, I'd wager--programs to keep kids occupied after school have been drastically cut. Whether we like it or not, two-thirds of women with children under six work outside the home. What an odd society it is that requires more training and licensing of the person who cuts your hair than the person...
...delivering the Orchard Hills school over to what has come to be called the Edison Project, Vaughn took a wager that only two other school districts in the country were prepared to risk at the time: he recommended that his board sign a contract permitting Edison to hire its own principal and teachers, manage its own budget and teach its own curriculum. In exchange the district would pay Edison about $3,600 a child, roughly the same amount it spends on its other 48,000 students. If Edison educated the children for less money, it could pocket the difference...
DIED. HAROLD ROBBINS, 81, narcissistic novelist whose smutty potboilers mirrored his rags-to-riches life; in Palm Springs, Calif. On a wager, Robbins wrote Never Love a Stranger (1948), the first of 23 books that sold 750 million copies worldwide. (See Eulogy below...
...Nixon--who plans to run for the U.S. Senate in 1998--has taken the fight a step further, contending that Global Casino's operators broke the law by letting a Missouri citizen wager on their site, even though the computers that take the bets are on the Caribbean island of Grenada. No dice, says Lawrence Hirsch, general counsel for I.G.C. "There is no law on the books anyplace," he says flatly, "that prohibits us from doing what...