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Students worried about the number of courses they would be required to take. Faculty wondered how to craft new curricula aligned with Harvard’s fresh approach to education. Administrators struggled to modify requirements to accommodate Advanced Standing students...
Eons ago, Walt Disney cornered this market with cartoon features that comforted parents and scared kids with the same implied admonition: Get home before dark. Pinocchio, Bambi and Dumbo, for all their craft and wonder, were essentially horror films that exploited the separation anxiety that children felt on their first day of school. The noise you heard back then from kids in the theater was a primal scream...
...sources to do its job. Without them, it would be nothing but dubious celebrity interviews and reports on sewer-bond hearings. We also need reminding, at a moment when public confidence in journalism is, according to the polls, at an all-time low, that it can be an honorable craft. Deep Throat be damned; he was, it seems, more mentor than prime informant on the story. It was the hardworking boys--fueled by ambition (yes, that, speaking of low human motives), passion and fast food--who put the puzzle together. Do you think, just possibly, we could...
...earned the respect of the authors who dominate legal lit. "If I could be a partner in one of the fictional law firms that she has created, I'd sign up in a heartbeat," says star crime writer Linda Fairstein admiringly. Scottoline quibbles with the popular name for her craft. "I don't think I'm writing legal thrillers at all, and honestly, I hate the term," she says. "I'm writing stories about strong, funny, resourceful women who get themselves in and out of trouble by sheer dint of will and excessive amounts of heart, and these women just...
...G.O.P., which is unhappy with the massive new education and homeland-security burdens imposed by Washington on the rest of the country. The suggested ID changes are particularly bold, since the 9/11 reform bill passed in December asked state officials to come together on their own to craft national standards for driver's licenses. A 16-person commission had been merrily doing that until it got a letter last week from the feds suspending its operation. "There are legitimate concerns about undermining local authority," says Republican Senator John Sununu of New Hampshire...