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...comes The Player, a dark comedy with heart, a movie about the movie business as thrilling as M *A *S *H, already as beloved by the screening-room cognoscenti as Nashville. Altman agrees with a chuckle that it probably represents his third comeback, and at 67 he is wise enough to know that a fourth or fifth may lie ahead. "Talk to me after my next movie," he says, half-assuming that this latest up means, in short order, the inevitable down. He smiles and gives a que sera shrug...
...ages, a Ten (Thousand) Commandments for a generation of tea drinkers. Surely such wisdom can only come from someone who spends his life in constant meditation, carving his maxims into stone tablets and passing them on to his disciples to disseminate in the form of Tag Lines--the wise, bearded Salada...
...maybe what we really need is for the wise, bearded Salada man to come down from his mountaintop and run for the president...
Just as more and more computer-wise workers will earn their keep from home offices, a growing number of students can expect to get their degrees without ever setting foot on campus. Susan Lerner, 40, of Burnt Ranch, Calif., is doing so now. An elementary school teacher at a remote Hupa Indian reservation, she has enrolled in a new M.A. program in educational technology offered by George Washington University in Washington, 2,500 miles away. Lerner takes two four-hour courses a week, beamed to her via the satellite dish in her yard, and keeps in touch with her professors...
...Fujimoro may have a repeat of 1968 in mind--pull a putsch, but don't behave like a putschist. Such progressive authoritarianism is sort of like smoking a joint but not inhaling. Bad idea. Fujimoro's best bet against Sendero is U.S. support (if Bush were wise, he'd think about debt relief instead of just throwing aid dollars into Peru), and Peruvian popular support...