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Even Presidents need cram sessions, and last Tuesday Bill Clinton, preparing for his trip to Europe, convened a study group in the White House. After cocktails in the Red Room, the 24 or so participants, including Vice President Al Gore, Secretary of State Warren Christopher and Secretary of Defense Les Aspin, sat down at a horseshoe-shaped table for elegantly served courses of mushroom soup, venison and wild rice, accompanied by Chardonnay and Pinot Noir. Since it was a seminar as well as a dinner, guest experts talked while the others ate, giving prepared comments on the future of NATO...
...instead and watch TV or read during those hours. Just take time to relax. By the time Thursday rolls around, you'll probably want to write those papers. It's a trick which works for exams, too. Spend your reading period asleep and you'll be all set to cram the night before. You're not going to study before then anyway...
...also wants to suffuse her home, which has grown with the addition of Kristen, 3, with the Latin ethic that values family above all else. "Here, you live to work. There, we work to live," she says. "In Venezuela we take a two-hour lunch break; we don't cram in a hamburger at MacDonald...
While in school, Yale students say they work and party hard. First-year Sarah Morton reports that "if you look for a social life, you can find it." Morton added that Yale has its share of "closet nerds," people she said pretend not to study, but cram all they...
Elsie's is the unofficial dining hall of a tutoring school that used to help Harvard undergraduates cram for exams...