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Teachers will grade papers and prepare for class only within the 45 minute preparation period allotted to them during the day, said I Conrad Solo, principal of the Graham and Parks elementary school. He added that teachers do not plan to hold parent-teacher conferences return Phone patents outside of School hours or attend weekly staff meetings...

Author: By Jonathan M. Moses, | Title: City Teachers Refuse Work | 11/13/1984 | See Source »

...avoiding a conflict of interest," said Conrad I Kohler, a Massachussetts scholarship official...

Author: By Elizabeth S. Colt, | Title: Students May Lose Grants By Registering Locally | 10/31/1984 | See Source »

...cartoonists' political sympathies. "I have a conflict," says Don Wright of the Miami News. "Basically, I'm rooting for Mondale, but sometimes he comes across bland and wimpish." Oliphant draws him with "sleepy eyes bringing out the boring aspects." The Los Angeles Times's Paul Conrad says, "I'd like to see him do better and don't take any relish in making him look incompetent. I'm despondent these days." Peters finds Mondale an "extremely nice guy, but he's dull. I'm probably going to vote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newswatch : Finding a Face for Fritz | 10/8/1984 | See Source »

...basic Reagan cartoon is the pompadour and neck wrinkles but also a long upper lip that Conrad calls Irish, almost horsy. Peters at an earlier stage emphasized the wrinkles but "got tired of drawing 400 lines" and discovered "you can put a pompadour on anything and it becomes Reagan." Herblock established the memorable Nixon look-furtive, hunched over, 5 o'clock shadow-but goes easier on his present adversary: Reagan is a "pretty good-looking guy." As cartoonists, they all seem grateful for the mobility in Reagan's face. Mike Peters currently sees Reagan as a "Cheshire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newswatch : Finding a Face for Fritz | 10/8/1984 | See Source »

LIKE NO OTHERS writer since Conrad, V.S. Naipaul has been able to capture the spirit of the world's less visited places. Throughout his 30 year career, the writer has remained true to a unique vision of the Third World. He understands the intangible clash of cultures that accompanies the application of Western ways to primitive societies. His books, both novels and journalistic travel accounts, offer a melange of modernity and mysticism which captures the cultural dislocation development has brought to the world's more backward corners...

Author: By Gilad Y. Ohana, | Title: Leaving the Center | 9/27/1984 | See Source »

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