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...shows up on AMC and TCM fairly often (last Tuesday, in fact). I'm guessing the Turner library (a part of AOL Time Warner, by the way, which owns all the old RKO releases) is preparing a DVD for U.S. release. (There was also an excellent Criterion Collection laser disk. Do you still have your laser disk player...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Monkey On My Back | 3/9/2001 | See Source »

Gutmann, the only woman on the short list, is currently the director of the Center for Human Values at Princeton. She easily meets the criterion of interest and experience in undergraduate education. She has written several books on education reform, advocated tenure reform and embraced faculty diversity during her short stint as Princeton's Dean of the Faculty. Gutmann's efforts to engage undergraduates and to promote the progress of women in the sciences indicate her concern for the undergraduate experience. Furthermore, Gutmann is a renowned scholar in her field. Though she is not as well-known in the political...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: The Next Harvard President | 2/12/2001 | See Source »

...attend private schools. "A surprisingly high percentage of immigrant parents also choose private schools," notes Lärjedalen official ?sten Carlson. "If you thought they are forced to choose [public school] because they don't know any better, it is simply not so." Interestingly, for immigrant parents the key criterion in selecting a private school is usually the quality of Swedish language instruction, a subject which they, like their Swedish counterparts, feel is compromised in a setting where the first language of most of the children is not the national...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Class Apart | 2/12/2001 | See Source »

...asset accumulation" which usually leads to "surplus-lowering policy initiatives"--in other words, if the government will be sitting on a pile of cash, it should increase spending or lower taxes. Keeping his tone as pragmatic as possible, Greenspan further reasoned that "if long-term fiscal stability is the criterion, it is far better, in my judgment, that the surpluses be lowered by tax reductions than by spending increases...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Greenspan Garbled | 2/5/2001 | See Source »

...There is a fairly simple equation that governs loyalty in organizations: the more insecure the leader, the greater the emphasisis on loyalty. The sole criterion for being in Saddam Hussein's cabinet is loyalty. The more secure the leader - both politically and psychologically - the more he will prize disagreement. I spent nearly two years working with and for Nelson Mandela, and I can't tell you how many times I saw his colleagues vociferously disagree with him. Why was that? (1) Because he allowed them to; (2) because he knew that was how he would get the best advice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's With Bush's Love of Loyalty? | 1/5/2001 | See Source »

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