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Audiences in search of funny girls have learned to forsake the theater for Valerie and Mary on the smaller screen. Mary opts for the soft approach. Every week, as Mary Richards, the effervescent assistant TV producer, she manages to discover fresh comic possibilities in herself and her supporting cast... On...
Alfred Hitchcock's films employ what the director called the MacGuffin--the object around which the plot seems to revolve. In the Thomas White Affair, the MacGuffin is the Crusader, an $11 billion piece of artillery that the Army long championed--until Rumsfeld axed the program last week. The tanklike...
But the bard of capitalism would scarcely recognize what California created as a "free market." The rules remained complex and rife with perverse incentives. The benefits to be gained from the system--taking advantage of its loopholes and stretching them wider--are all too obvious. Mike Aguirre, a San Diego...
So he is not Superman. But then neither is Superman, in the hit WB TV series Smallville, in which a teenage Clark Kent (Tom Welling) discovers the powers that will someday make him the Man of Steel. He moons over an unrequited crush and battles villains who are really externalizations...
Seventy-four students learned yesterday that they have received the distinguished Hoopes Prize for outstanding academic research work.