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Galbraith's two previous novels were The Triumph, the story of a Central American dictator, and The McLandress Dimension, a tale of an inventor who, among other projects, creates a method of classifying people by the amount of time they spend not thinking about themselves...
This chameleonic actress has a lot going for her, starting with her eccentric good looks. "Taken apart, Ellen doesn't work," observes Martin Bregman, who produced Sea of Love. "But put it together, and you've got a stunning woman." Then she gives you Method intensity with treacherous glamour. As Sea's director, Harold Becker, notes, "Ellen is very real. She looks like she's lived, like she's earned her face." And her spurs. This is a ferociously bright, witty, serious actor who packs risk and surprise in every move. She will go bigger, badder, beyond. "So much...
...astonishing how many ways the Middle East's antagonists can find to thwart peace. Lately, the preferred method has been to dither. Now Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has stepped in with a proposal to goose the main parties into conversation, only to find even those modest efforts mired in debate. After an inconclusive round robin of talks in Cairo, Washington and New York, Mubarak went home warning -- not for the first time -- that a "golden opportunity" was about to be missed...
...people can come in to an unintimidating atmosphere, sit in a classroom and talk, work things through, and find out how people learn, just as we do at the tennis college." The company agreed and in 1987 signed him to a five-year contract. Ski magazine also likes his method, naming his Aspen school the best in the country this year...
Disparities such as these prompted the Texas Supreme Court last week to declare the state's method of school finance unconstitutional. In a 9-to-0 decision, the court said the wide gaps between the richest and the poorest of Texas' 1,071 districts violate a provision of the state constitution requiring an "efficient" education. Funneling resources to poorer districts would reduce some of these differences. But money alone is not enough. What Texas schools need, said the court, is an overhaul. "A Band-Aid will not suffice," said Justice Oscar H. Mauzy. "The system itself must be changed...