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Saturday, October 7, the Stadium: The Crimson covers the crater caused by the boulder with a large, simulation-grass blanket. Lehigh falls for it and most of its starting players are trapped. Cakewalk for the Crimson...
Most news organizations, including TIME, impose no blanket restrictions on outside political activity so long as it is unrelated to a reporter's regular field. But others frown on any political advocacy. The Times, which plans to clarify its policy, declines to "explicitly say that journalists can't participate in a movement that is far afield from their beats," says assistant managing editor Warren Hoge. "But I sure wish they wouldn't." The Post takes a more hard-line position: its reporters are discouraged from engaging in any political activities, including community affairs, regardless of what they cover. Many Post...
...sets, like the music, are exquisite. The movie is filmed at St. Andrew's School, where huge gothic buildings, a calm lake, autumn leaves on New England trees and a blanket of white snow all play to the naturalistic and romantic poets whom Keating teaches to the boys...
Besides the recommendations on sex counseling, perhaps the report's most controversial proposal is the elimination of tracking. While it is true that minority and at-risk students are often warehoused in low-level classes, a blanket insistence on cooperative learning may motivate parents of gifted children to abandon the public schools. "We need to be careful," says Stanford education professor Michael Kirst. "We certainly don't want to slow down kids on the fast track...
...article on a recent Undergraduate Council Services committee meeting, I was reported to have said that all "ROTC students are economically disadvantaged." In fact, this view was expressed by someone else at the meeting, and is a blanket statement with which I cannot concur. Certainly, there are students in ROTC who cannot afford to attend Harvard without scholarships the program provides them. It was to help these students, some of whom receive smaller scholarships than they otherwise could and undergo great hardships as a result, as well as those who cannot afford to attend Harvard...