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...wanted to please his father and because "I had children of my own. They had been grousing as they got older, 'Well, Dad never finished college, and he did fine.'" Spielberg benefited from some advanced placement: he got credit for Amistad and Schindler's List, but he had to write a paper on paleontology. "For some reason," he says, "Jurassic Park was too apocryphal to count for credit." No doubt the diploma will open up countless new opportunities for him, but Spielberg plans to stick with this directing thing for a while longer. "I never get tired of finding...
...past is a foreign country," the novelist L.P. Hartley famously observed. "They do things differently there." Well, yes and no. When Anne Bernays and Justin Kaplan decided to write a joint memoir of their lives in the 1950s, they found plenty of differences. That was the decade of McCarthyism, The Lonely Crowd, "I Like Ike" and Sputnik, and of manners and mores that now seem downright quaint. But in Back Then: Two Lives in 1950s New York (Morrow), Bernays and Kaplan (who are wife and husband) also found lines of continuity with the present, and the roots of who they...
...like Prudent Bear Fund manager David Tice have alleged that Kozlowski was using aggressive, although not illegal, accounting methods to overstate the earnings of a collection of slow-growth businesses. By encouraging a company to depress its earnings just before it was acquired, usually in the form of large write-offs of intangible assets, the critics assert, Tyco made its subsequent growth appear that much stronger...
...went down in 1991, hordes of American slackers poured into East bloc cities like Prague, Cracow and Budapest, quaint, cobblestoned capitals where a recent college grad could sit in a cafe all day, smoke bad cigarettes, drink bad wine, bask in the low, low exchange rates and attempt to write the Great American Novel. In 1991 the inaugural issue of the English-language weekly Prague Post proclaimed, "We are living in the Left Bank of the '90s." So where are those novels, and how great are they? A decade later--blame it on those long Slavic siestas--the Hemingways...
...give. Particularly when they are young, they're open to the message that they need to help. Spend a morning stocking the shelves at a local food pantry. Walk with them for causes like breast cancer or heart disease. Help them count the change they save, then write a check for that amount to a charity they choose. And be sure to request that the thank-you note comes to them...