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...confusion over the new money only added to the stress of everyday life. Earlier this month, the government imposed a nationwide energy emergency. Thousands of workers were laid off amid production slowdowns at large factories. Government ministries now close at midday, and TV broadcasts are limited to four hours at night. Daily power cuts of several hours are parceled out to each region. In Managua whole neighborhoods are plunged without warning into darkness, giving the capital an eerie resemblance to the Rumanian capital of Bucharest, where government-enforced blackouts have been imposed for years...
...European children ever have childhoods? Not in the '40s and '50s anyway, to judge from a bunch of recent movies. Death's shadow dogged a boy's heels; responsibility came early, and guilt tagged along. Kids grew up faster, tougher, with fewer fantasies and more urgent everyday nightmares. In wartime or in uneasy peace, childhood was no romp in the meadows of innocence; the evidence is on the screen. Two top contenders for this week's Oscar nominations focus on English boys growing up during World War II. In Steven Spielberg's Empire of the Sun, a lad gets shanghaied...
Snow, whose act centers around eating, sex, and her own obesity, has a unique way of taking ordinary events and turning them into cause for uproarious laughter. Snow jokes about everyday events, such as how she lies on her driver's license. "My weight on my license is my weight on the moon," she jokes...
...Undergraduate Council is becoming more and more like real government everyday. The council's latest move resembles a tax increase. The student government voted to raise undergraduates' term bill fees by 100 percent, from $10 to $20 a year, making the council's annual budget...
...Everyday we try to watch a couple of films," Thibodeau said. "You never feel so prepared that you can't benefit from seeing the films one more time...