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...honor systems ranging from those that bar plagiarism to those that consider it a violation to bounce a check. Harvard, Columbia, and Yale are the only Ivy League schools with no form of honor code. Brown, Cornell, Dartmouth, the University of Pennsylvania (which has proctored exams), and Spence's alma mater, Princeton, all have some type of honor code...
Spence and other administrators have said they have no immediate plans to change Harvard's system, and Jewett said he has some reservations about whether such a change would be useful at his alma mater. His concerns lie in students' obligation to turn in their peers for cheating--"self-policing" as Jewett terms it. He said he will be interested to hear from students on this issue, "since it will only work if students honor it," and stressed that an honor code is unlikely to be implemented unless students give it "overwhelming support...
...tattered coat upon a stick. The 26% of the population over 50 controls three-quarters of the nation's financial assets and, with $130 billion in discretionary income, half of its spending power. "Today's elderly, especially the young elderly under 70, are a marketer's dream," says Alma Triner of Arthur D. Little Inc., a consulting firm based in Cambridge, Mass...
...spokesman Alma Triner said yesterday her company was "not exactly happy" about the decision, but said the research firm would abide by the ruling. Triner said she did not know if or when an appeal would be filed...
Berg wrote his concerto in 1935 after the death of Manon Gropius, the beloved daughter of his friend Alma Mahler and the architect Walter Gropius. The girl died at 19 of polio and the composer dedicated the work "to the memory of an angel." Robbins' scenario begins quietly and a bit flatly as Farrell moves with increasing stiffness and bafflement between her lover (tenderly danced by Joseph Duell) and friends. Suddenly they move off and she is left with a gauntly beautiful angel of death (Adam Luders). Their pas de deux is the heart of the ballet. The moves...