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These include bringing handsome people--some of them silly, some of them wise, some of them rich, some of them poor--together in a variety of pleasing settings, arranging many misunderstandings and misalliances, equally productive of amusing conversations and embarrassing situations, then sorting everyone and everything out in the last chapter or act. It's a formula amply on display not only in Sense and Sensibility but also in Hollywood's major romantic offering of the Christmas season, Sabrina...
...been safe and content; the genteel but palpable anxiety of her mother (Gemma Jones), trying to be brave as poverty and spinsterhood loom for her girls; the hysterically misplaced passion of her sister Marianne (Kate Winslet)--the "Sensibility" of the title--nearly dying when that cad John Willoughby (Greg Wise) leaves her for a woman better endowed financially; the romantic occlusion that prevents Marianne from seeing what everyone else can see, that the good Colonel Brandon (Alan Rickman), despite a certain stiffness in his emotional joints, is her savior...
...committee had to agree that the meeting was still privileged, and other Whitewater investigative bodies must agree to the terms. "This offer is reasonable," notes TIME's J.F.O. McAllister, "since it's impossible to argue there's no privilege between the President and his attorneys. It's also a wise tactic politically since complying with it will delay the investigation." But Senator Al D'Amato, the committee chairman, clearly preferred a court fight: "It's good politics to keep this issue churning, especially given Newt Gingrich's recent problems...
Harvard administrators are not democratically elected officials required to act upon constituent wishes. Instead, we should think of administrators as acting in loco parentis over us. They make the types of decisions that parents make for children who are simply too young and too inexperienced to make wise choices...
...rest of the team would be wise to follow their example...