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THERE ARE a number of benefits from self-scheduled exams. First, they would eliminate the arbitrariness and unfairness of the present system. Exam times aren't holy; they are decided by when the registrar can cram what where. The result is that some students get screwed over with multiple exams on the same or consecutive days, or have useless gaps before exams for which they don't need to study. What's even worse is when--like me--you have a four-day intersession while your roommate runs off to Puerto Rico for two weeks of sun. Having students decide...
Instead, let's just consider this application another chapter in the ever-imploding Kennedy mythology. No matter how many religious allusions Oliver Stone can cram into three hours of religious illusions, John Kennedy was not Jesus Christ--although both did have powerful daddies. JFK was painfully slow on civil rights. He was no Vietnam dove. And for what it's worth, his principal trashed "Jack's lack of intellectual drive" on his application to Harvard...
With both parents typically holding down jobs, home life had been reduced to a mad scramble at the end of the day to cram in shopping, laundry, cooking, ; mending -- and, oh, yes, communication. Quality time had become a bitter cliche: a concentrated, forced effort to make up for irretrievable moments. Children could not be expected to schedule all their needs in a prime-time slot. Adults found they had to work harder to hire people to do the work they had no time for: raking the leaves, fixing the porch, taking care of the kids and even cooking meals...
...what undergraduates don't know is that while they cram into lecture halls to snooze through "Heroes for Zeros" and cruise through "Jesus and the Easy Life," their prospective teaching assistants are running in the opposite direction...
City spas probably owe their popularity to the growing number of women professionals who want to cram the benefits of a massage or body scrub into their crowded business day. But the facilities cater to both sexes, and for rushed executives or work-out enthusiasts, they help unknot kinks and ease tensions. Corporations are joining the trend by rewarding employees with day- spa gift certificates; rather than woo clients over lunch at a chic restaurant, many businesswomen now treat them to a short stint at a day spa, where a la carte treatments replace the lengthy regimens at full-time...