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...Harvard Law School graduate has also acted in several films including "Fatal Beauty", "Critical Condition" and "Crossover Dreams." He will appear in a film directed by Robert Redford, "The Milagro Beanfield War," which is scheduled for release later this year...
...Unfortunately, however, the current quantitative reasoning test offers no guarantee that the students have a meaningful level of manipulative skills, much less an understanding of quantitative and logical reasoning and the essence of mathematics as a discipline. The omission of mathematics itself from the Core, strange though this may appear, need not be fatal if some other adequate provision is made for students outside of the sciences to acquire mathematics skills and knowledge...
...problems were wrenching because academia and industry are fundamentally incompatible. Academics are concerned with the search for truth, no matter how irrelevant the subject may appear to be. Industry focuses on applied research, on developing a useful product and rushing it to market. Professors depend on openness of communication, on sharing news of discoveries to further the advancement of knowledge and research. Industry relies on secrecy, on keeping information about products and processes from competitors...
...offered Kinsley a chance to write for TIME, he could not resist. "After a decade of writing for a magazine with a circulation of 100,000," he says, "a magazine of close to 5 million looks pretty tempting." The pieces he will pen for TIME each year will appear in the Essay section, though Kinsley does not describe himself as an essayist. Once, while criticizing Financial Expert Felix Rohatyn, Kinsley wrote that one "laughably easy" way to earn a reputation as a philosopher is to "refer to your own writings as 'essays,' not articles." Says Kinsley: "I write articles...
...civics lesson in the form of a challenge: if the students could find something "unfair" in the state constitution, Green would endeavor to have it changed. Little did he imagine that the young sleuths would track down a startling inequity. As 100 students pointed out last week in an appearance before an Arizona house committee, the document states that only a "male person" may occupy the offices of Governor, secretary of state, treasurer, attorney general or superintendent of public instruction. The finding was all the more remarkable since Rose Mofford had taken office as acting Governor only one day earlier...