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...rootin', tootin', ridin' Romeo of the screen." A sidekick to William Boyd in the Hopalong Cassidy series, he toured the country in 1950 asking kids if they approved of kissing in westerns (87% favored it if there was plenty of hard riding and fighting beforehand); of pneumonia; in Palm Springs...
Last week he admitted that he had approached Nestle beforehand. Said Cranston: "That was a direct contradiction...
...having friends in their sections, raising the worry of "peer evaluation" most frequently voiced by critics of the setup. "It doesn't happen," Kaye says, explaining that section assigners deliberately separate friends and acquaintances. A set grading curve and a common final, which none of the section leaders sees beforehand, also help alleviate the possibility of bias, Hughes-Hallet says, adding "Just about the only way someone could help a friend get a good grade would be to teach him math...
...offspring of a mating of her scattershot nature and her resolution. Photo spent weeks working on data that eventually got garbled in the computer. Two weeks before her thesis was due, she changed the focus of her topic. She didn't start writing the text until five days beforehand. At 3:30 the day it was due, she had no introduction, no conclusion, no footnotes, and no bibliography. Photo dictated the introduction and conclusion to her typist, and handed her chapters in with only the barest bibliography and footnotes. When she got it back, Photo was dismayed that what...
...woman next year--Anthropology (Sally Falk Moore). English (Marjorie Garber). Psychology and Social Relations (Ellen J. Langer, associate professor of Psych and Soc Rel), and History (Angeliki Laiou)--all were underutilizing. Department members decline to comment on whether gender played a role in those deliberations, though Rosovsky had met beforehand with the four and the underutilizing departments...