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Many Harvard undergraduates (or, more precisely, their parents) are forking over up to $100,000 in exchange for a prestigious degree, a bunch of good grades, and not much else. Lots of students get by with shoddy work and lots of instructors get by with shoddy teaching. Meanwhile, the administration smiles and takes the money. If this cycle is to end, we all must make a concerted effort to replace the status quo with rigorous and concerned teaching, learning, and evaluation. Instead of resisting the fight against grade inflation, students should be leading the way. William Cole
...broadcast programming and all manner of video publications, catalogs, data files and interactive entertainment. Remote facilities, located in Burbank, California, or Hollywood or Atlanta or anywhere, will hold additional offerings from HBO and Showtime, as well as archived hits from the past: I Love Lucy, Star Trek, The Brady Bunch. Click an item on the menu, and it will appear instantly on the screen...
...drove the van containing it into the trade center? Abohalima has been described in some press reports as the mastermind, but some authorities view him as a bombmaking "consultant." Debate rages too about the motive and whether the bombers were directed by foreign terrorists or were just a bunch of free-lance zealots. (See related story on page...
...Garcia Marquez's brand of magic realism into the kitchen and the bedroom, the Latin woman's traditional castle and dungeon. The film version was written by Esquivel and directed by her husband Alfonso Arau, known to U.S. audiences for his performances in funky-flaky westerns. In The Wild Bunch he played a punk gunslinger and in Three Amigos! the malefic El Guapo, who spits out the immortal line "A plethora of pinatas...
Garcia said the coalition is "not just a bunch of Militant leaders," but that its members are determined to see that their grievances are resolved. The political leverage of the coalition and its large membership should force the administration to respond to the demands, Garcia said...