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...prime, and Gibson looks all of his 44 years, if not a bit more. Not long ago, during a late night of channel surfing, he says, "I snuck up on (1983's) "The Year of Living Dangerously." I watched a couple of minutes and thought, 'Hell, did I get...
...thinking?'" His feet rest on the coffee table in his office, next to a tiny version of himself, a "Braveheart" doll wearing a kilt and waving a sword. "I think time makes one more aware of the light and shade in human behavior," he says. "Most people get better with time. The sad part is, you get old and ugly as you get better." Then he laughs, knowing that even with the aging, there's not much for him to be sad about...
...education analyst, writes in her recent book, The War Against Boys, that schoolboys are "routinely regarded as protosexists, potential harassers and perpetuators of gender inequity" who "live under a cloud of censure." Sommers cites studies showing that boys come to school less prepared than girls, do less homework and get suspended more often. "For males, there's no social currency in being a straight-A student," says Clifford Thornton, associate dean of admissions at Wesleyan University. Although the latest figures show that college graduates earn, on average, almost double the wages of those with no college, "there's a sense...
Tickets to get into the inner sanctum were so hard to come by that people began lining up two days in advance. Ron Hutchings, 20, of Anchorage, Alaska, and Scott Shryack, 20, of Los Angeles, were number two and three in line, having camped outside the courthouse in near-freezing temperatures since 6 am Thursday, subsisting on chips, candy bars and coffee. "We wanted to witness history," Hutchings said. "But did you ever stretch out on cold marble? We didn't get a lot of sleep...
...need all the help he can get, Fox's room for maneuver is exceedingly narrow. For starters, some 80 percent of his national budget is already spoken for in paying off external debt and the residue of Mexico's banking scandal, which will devour about $5 billion in interest. That gives him little to spend on efforts to promote economic growth, which remains his overarching priority. But even if he had the money to spend, he'd have to contend with the fact that he lacks a majority in the legislature, and most state governors still belong...