Word: act
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...professorship, which will be shared jointly with the music department, was endowed by the Time Warner Corporation. Time Warner is the first company to endow a permanent professorship in Afro-American studies at any American university, and its willingness to act as the flagship for this field of study is commendable...
Here in the United States we also have a law, under the 1993 Family and Medical Leave Act, that allows for paternity leave. Unfortunately, this privilege is one of the most underused by American men, young and old. Studies have shown that the more time fathers spend alone with their babies during the first few months of life, the more involved they will be throughout their children's lifetimes...
...involuntarily. The man behind all these faces is Danny Gans, the hottest entertainer in Las Vegas. He sings, he dances, he does impressions, he tells stories, and, at 39, he has managed to appeal to the MTV-weaned young crowd and Don Rickles fans alike. "I tell people my act is like the weather in Hawaii," says Gans. "If you don't like it, wait five minutes and it will change again...
Last week, his act changed again, moving into a new 1,265-seat theater that Steve Wynn built specially for him at the Mirage Hotel. Along with his 10-year, $150 million Vegas contract, Gans has recorded an album of Christian music, Brand New Dream, and Aaron Spelling is developing a TV pilot based on his life. Once a minor league ballplayer, Gans was doing 130 nights a year on the corporate-entertainment circuit when he decided to settle down in Vegas with his wife and three kids. There he has found his niche. "I hope I've made...
...country, where students are increasingly subjected to ever more intensive invasions of privacy, from drug tests to locker searches. Some parents, perhaps exhausted by the demands of their own lives or simply sympathetic to the rigors of policing the behavior of modern adolescents, have praised educators' inclination to act in loco parentis, while others have resisted the schools' control over once private aspects of their children's lives...