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...ultimate goal is improving education, not just talking. Yet talk has its value. "The indicators we use to look at schools affect what schools focus on," says Nancy Rankin, at the National Parenting Association. "If they know they will get publicity as the top school for professor-student mentoring, maybe they will encourage faculty to be more available to students." Parents and college applicants who want to join the discourse can view the list of participating institutions on the NSSE website www.indiana.edu/NSSE) if any colleges they're interested in are included, they can ask those schools for their results...
...puts most people in a vexed mood--like the depressive who gets time out from his clinic and goes to the beach for a few days. He sends his psychiatrist a postcard. The message he writes might well have come from any of us, a reflection of technology's affect on our lives: "Having a wonderful time...
...Meanwhile, the political clock ticks. David Boies was out within the hour to downplay the decision - "We think the U.S. Supreme Court decision does not in any way affect the contest before Judge Sauls" - before favoring reporters with some well-spun analysis of the implications. For Boies, still fighting for a clean-slate hand count of some 14,000 votes, a decision that at worst costs his client only the 400-odd Broward County votes and does nothing to the ongoing "contest" except muddy it up a bit is just another fly on his legal windshield. "There's no reason...
...more than they'd ever wanted to know about the composition, strength and chemical qualities of the rubber t-strip that's placed under the ballot in a Votomatic machine, testifying firmly there was no way the normal use of a stylus (the tool used to punch chads) could affect the composition of the underlying rubber. This was an attempt to discredit Brace, who'd claimed that overuse can cause the rubber to harden and make it more difficult for voters to punch through chads correctly...
...word "soup" on all the shopping lists that are on display. A pair of ice skates hanging next to the cooking utensils relate to the play's finale when the family reunited plans to go skating as they used to before Tom's lapse into alcoholism. The disabilities that affect the family are also made visible in the kitchen walls, which are painted a strident yellow and stenciled with bunches of grapes. The alternation between light and dark is smooth, saving the spotlight for a great performance by the cast of Escape from Happiness...