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...half, "preparing" audiences for the film.) Bower sees the movie's main drawing card as its universality: "All of our ancestors were immigrants whose languages weren't understood when they got here." Such cross-over appeal is evident in San Francisco, where the film is in its tenth week, and has grossed over...
Helms complained, accurately, that the bill had been rushed to the floor without committee hearings. He also grumbled about the cost, which he grandiosely put at $12 billion. The actual cost of a tenth national holiday* is difficult to calculate. The Congressional Budget Office estimates the Federal Government would have to pay a mere $18 million in premium wages for employees who are called in to work. Some estimates put the price tag for state and local governments at $692 million and for private businesses at $4.3 billion; those figures assume they all close for the day, which they...
...Dickens' doomed household. The prodigiously energetic writer had been happy with his pretty wife Catherine Hogarth in the early years of their marriage. But he became disenchanted and finally furious with her as she grew fat and listless. A few years after the birth of their tenth child in 1852, he moved out, taking all but the oldest of the children with him, as he had a legal right to do. The scandal caused by his action was compounded when Dickens took the extraordinary step of publishing a statement about the separation in the London Times. In tones...
...Buckley says, "for the simple reason that writing is extremely hard work, and I do not 'like' hard work." Rather he may write to escape boredom or serve his cause or maybe not. "It is easier to stay up late working for hours," Buckley reasons, "than to take one-tenth the time to inquire into the question whether the work is worth performing...
Hispanics, Blacks and Native American groups are considered under-represented at the B-School, currently comprising only about one tenth of the MBA student body...