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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...compensate for the tighter deadlines, thedeans waived penalty fees for dropping and addingcourses during the second week of classes andrequired professors to have syllabi available byregistration day. Council member Thomas D. Warren'88 said he had objected to an earlier draft ofthe plan that did not contain these provisions...

Author: By Neil A. Cooper, | Title: Shopping Period to Lose Five Days Next Semester | 2/4/1988 | See Source »

Designs for the projects contain less parking and higher rooftops than city law requires. Consequently, the developers must get special permission from several city agencies, including the Planning Board, before they may build...

Author: By Jeffrey S. Packer, | Title: Developers Must Compromise Over Brattle Square Project | 2/3/1988 | See Source »

...professor's wife from Erie, Pa., tells Clark his philosophy and style are just right; a mother of two from Queens, N.Y., approves of his tough line; and a senior citizen from Olympia, Wash., writes simply, "I wish we had a few more like you." Many of the letters contain money -- in amounts from $2 to $100 -- for Clark's defense fund. This past week brought some big bucks. Jack Berdy, chairman and CEO of On-Line Software, a computer company in Fort Lee, N.J., pledged $1 million in scholarships to Eastside over the next ten years, on the condition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Getting Tough | 2/1/1988 | See Source »

Even the nomenclature is open to debate. Some "mysteries" contain no puzzle or enigma. In many modern "detective" stories there is no true detective. What the French call a roman policier may not actually include the police. The British surmount the problem by calling the genre crime fiction. Perhaps the crime story is like pornography in Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart's oft-cited formulation: impossible to define but unmistakable in its effects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Many Guises of Mysteries | 2/1/1988 | See Source »

After a two day search, workmen patched the leak which was found Monday in the section of an oil pipeline underneath a Metropolitan District Commission parking lot on Soldier's Field Road. The oil, which does not contain cancer-causing PCBs, is used to cool a 115,000-volt electrical transmission line that connects Cambridge and Brighton...

Author: By Wendy R. Meltzer, | Title: Workers Stopped Oil Leakage Before It Could Reach Charles | 1/27/1988 | See Source »

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