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THE first problem with the treatment of the report was that it had its teeth removed by the Faculty Committee. Months of effort by a competent and dedicated senior faculty committee deserved more than a cursory examination by a steering committee that met behind closed doors.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Actions Speak Louder | 11/1/1989 | See Source »

9. Use more ad-hoc committees--but only when there's someone devoted and competent to chair them. The two success stories of last year's council--campus security and minority and women faculty hiring--came as a direct result of the actions of ad-hoc committees and their dedicated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Do the Right Thing | 10/12/1989 | See Source »

But even when adoptive parents come forward, the foster-care and adoptive system can keep the children tantalizingly out of reach. Designed to be a short-term arrangement ending in either adoption or the child's return to a competent parent, foster care has become a kind of indeterminate sentence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Adoption: Nobody's Children | 10/9/1989 | See Source »

Candidates interviewed said the ideal class marshal should be a competent and understanding leader

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: News Briefs | 9/29/1989 | See Source »

Its surface realism notwithstanding, this movie must be read symbolically, especially since it is presented as a dream that overtakes Eriksson years later, when he encounters a young Oriental woman on a train who reminds him of the long-ago victim. In the dream, Meserve -- arrogant, competent, headlong (in short...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Vice And Victims in Viet Nam | 8/21/1989 | See Source »

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