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...form a governing committee to set policies for the commons. The committee would consist of Undergraduate Council members, house masters, faculty and members of the central administration...

Author: By Todd F. Braunstein, | Title: Loker Proposals Mulled | 9/13/1995 | See Source »

...SPARSELY FURNISHED LIVING ROOM OF AN UDEGE house in southeastern Siberia while the owner tries to sell me a tiger skin and bones. My cover is that I am part of a group of American businessmen here for a week of bird watching. The other "bird watchers" consist of Steven Galster, an environmental investigator, Anthony Suau, a TIME photographer, and Sergei Shaitarov, a Russian environmentalist who works with Galster. My ludicrously rudimentary disguise consists of a borrowed pair of binoculars. If the tiger trader asks me to name one species of local bird, we are sunk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SIBERIA UNDERCOVER | 9/4/1995 | See Source »

...thing that helps turn the perfectly natural feeling of sadness or dejection into the pathology known as depression is social isolation. Today one-fourth of American households consist of a single person. That's up from 8% in 1940--and, apparently, from roughly zero percent in the ancestral environment. Hunter-gatherer societies, for all their diversity, typically feature intimacy and stability: people live in close contact with roughly the same array of several dozen friends and relatives for decades. They may move to another village, but usually either to join a new family network (as upon marriage) or to return...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE EVOLUTION OF DESPAIR | 8/28/1995 | See Source »

...rather bland but careful writer, fastidious about his grammar; "to be able personally to influence" is his somewhat labored way of avoiding a split infinitive. In another passage, lambasting white liberals who champion black culture, he writes, "But in what does this preservation of African-American culture consist? It can hardly consist in anything more than eating black-style food...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PUBLISH OR PERISH | 8/14/1995 | See Source »

...hoping that one of the professors who read the manuscript will remember a former student who used "consist in" when he meant "consist of," or that some other grammatical tic will trigger an association leading to the Unabomber's unmasking. Mathematical code breaking is a far more precise science than detective work on language. But writing in sufficient samples does betray unique characteristics, including vocabulary range, repeated sentence structures and preferred figures of speech...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PUBLISH OR PERISH | 8/14/1995 | See Source »

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