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...Princeton Review and tutoring powerhouse Sylvan Learning Centers, which last year launched a $900 test-prep course for students as young as those in third grade. These testing giants have been joined by hundreds of new, small-time firms that often have little to recommend them beyond their own breathless promises of higher scores. The demand will only grow with the law signed by President Bush on Jan. 8 that requires annual testing in reading and math in Grades 3 through 8 by 2005; a provision in the law also pledges up to $1,000 a child in chronically...
...took a while, but people are catching on to the secret of the Academy Awards: for three hours every star in Hollywood works for free. These days they're working overtime. The B-list Golden Globes now get breathless TV coverage to rival the Oscars, and even the Broadcast Film Critics Association has landed a seven-year cable deal for its Critics' Choice awards. Still to come: the Screen Actors Guild Awards (March 10) and the Independent Spirit Awards (March 23). How do the Oscar folks feel about all this? Asked about the latest entry in the awards parade--those...
...were up around floor 28 when it seemed like someone had grabbed hold of the towers, like King Kong was shaking the two towers." Within seconds, the call to evacuate came over the bullhorn. The members of Engine 28 turned and charged down the stairs. They lingered, breathless, in the lobby for an instant as some companies, ignoring the order, continued to run into the building. Roy Chelsen, a fireman with Engine 28, yelled, "We have to get out. Run!" Then King Kong returned...
...BLACK HAWK DOWN This is big-time, big-budget moviemaking at its best. A hugely complex re-creation of a 1993 special forces fire fight in Somalia, it is masterfully orchestrated by director Ridley Scott. Brutal, bloody, breathless in pace, it shows us modern warfare's newest, ugliest face and finally becomes, like all great war movies, an antiwar movie--at least in the beholder's savaged...
Despite the breathless tone of the announcement last week, the Responsible Cooperators Program is not new. Originally instituted in 1994 as a means to reduce violent crime, the program was swiftly renewed by Congress this past September and signed into law by President George W. Bush on Oct. 1. As with many crimes, those who have information that could help the Justice Department solve old cases of terrorism or prevent new ones should be able to come forward without fear of being deported for minor visa violations...