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Harvard is surrounded by world-class ice cream joints. At a university which is required by some ancient and sacred pact to serve ice cream with at least one meal a day, students still find the best offerings off campus. Blessing is piled atop cold, creamy blessing at such local establishments as Baskin Robbins, Emack and Bolio's, Herrell's, and Scoops and Beans...
...guilty. A card-carrying adolescent, less than a month shy of her 19th birthday, Tyler is an ingenue unflustered by her sexuality, one who has lately been busy cultivating her inner grownup. She will appear in four movies in the next year, having caught the eye of some world-class directors. Woody Allen, for instance, who cast her in his latest film but, alas, had to drop the subplot line in which she was featured when the first cut of the movie ran over three hours. Nevertheless, the reticent director calls her "a wonderful actress, a delight." Bernardo Bertolucci...
...life. His bar-diner, which often looks deserted except for one resident grouse, is the anti-Cheers; it should be called Blahs. Heavy is a mood piece, which means there's not much going on and ain't ever gonna be. The characters shop, eat, sleep, do some world-class moping and, in general, wait for something the hell to happen. And all that happens...
...state-university tuition went up at least 10% a year. Since 1980, the cost in most states has tripled or quadrupled. Today the price of a state university education is distinctly not nominal. The average total cost for a year of public higher education is $9,285. At the world-class, "flagship" state universities, costs are approaching the private-university level. Next year the University of California at Berkeley will cost more than $13,818 and the University of Virginia an estimated...
...today. To experts who understand the trajectory of childhood development, the statistics predict a grim future for American society. As Douglas Nelson, executive director of the Annie E. Casey Foundation, puts it, "It may well be that the nation cannot survive--as a decent place to live, as a world-class power or even as a democracy--with such high rates of children growing into adulthood unprepared to parent, unprepared to be productively employed and unprepared to share in mainstream aspirations...