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Much of McArthur's time must be devoted to external affairs--promoting faculty research, making sure that corporations are satisfied with the year's crop of MBAs, and soliciting funds. In this capacity, McArthur serves as a high-profile publicist, professors say, often using the B-School's press and videos to present information about the school in a novel...
...current crop of children's magazines feature the literary firepower of their forebears. But what they lack in name recognition they make up for in diversity. Nearly half, including Weekly Reader, Junior Scholastic and Science Weekly, are designed as teaching aids for the classroom. Outside school, magazines such as the venerable Boys' Life, Highlights for Children and the new U.S. Kids offer a combination of fiction and nonfiction stories, puzzles and contests. Then there is the fast-growing crop of special-interest magazines, including Cobblestone (history), Faces (anthropology), Odyssey (space exploration and astronomy), Cricket (fiction), Merlyn's Pen (student fiction...
...Cook begins his tenure, his major goals are already approaching fruition. The arboretum is finding its place as both a resource center for scholars, and a learning ground for the young. The garden just may yield a bumper crop one day soon...
Though the country's cultural life is being invigorated by a transfusion of the best of six decades of banned Soviet and emigre art, the competition has exposed the mediocrity of many established artists. The freshly released crop of classics has also set exceedingly high standards for aspiring artists, who were spoon-fed notions of official culture that are now held up to ridicule. Says Sergei Zalygin, editor in chief of Novy Mir: "Like Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky in the past century, our artists need to find a new style and a new way of thinking if they hope to create...
...crop of National League pitchers during the 1980s has been impressive. But only one National Leaguer has pitched 10 shutouts in one season during the '80s. Name...