One hundred years after Oscar Wilde's infamous trials, imprisonment and exile from England, he is experiencing a new wave of popularity. London and New York have recently been boasting well-reviewed productions of his plays and plays about him, one with no less a star than Liam Neeson, and Stephen Fry is playing him on film. Approach it as if you've been invited to see someone's home movies. By Jacquelyn Mitchard Arley Mowbray was raised by a loveless parent in a hardscrabble South Texas town, dreaming of college, a career and a family. For much of the past century, two intellectual camps have warred about the factors that shape personality, behavior and temperament.
Most people know it as nature vs. nurture.
According to recent statistics, less than one-half of 1 percent of all juveniles in this country have been arrested for a violent offense. The parents in Berkeley, Calif., where Baker lives, are probably hipper than most. By John Sugden Friends and foes alike paid tribute to the abilities of Tecumseh. If it were not for the vicinity of the United States, he would, perhaps, be the founder of an empire that would rival in glory that of Mexico or Peru. There is a moment, about halfway through Bridget Jones's Diary , of such pure and utter cruelty, such icy, drop-dead devastation, that it will immediately cause a large percentage of its single, female readers to drop the book, grope frantically for the phone, and read it out loud to their best girlfriends.