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When Nye last led the course in the fall of 1992, he received an unusually high CUE guide rating of 4.7 out of 5, and enrollment peaked...
...truly bent on personal revenge, you do have some avenues to pursue. The annual guide produced by the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) provides the easiest, most anonymous retorts. The "I" on a scale from 1 to 5 can be a mighty weapon, dragging down averages with ease. The utmost punishment consists of telling your classmates to avoid the teacher in question at all costs. After all, the true reward in teaching derives from having intelligent and earnest students...
...obvious sketch of the real-life mobster Bugsy Siegel and that since everyone knows that Siegel was murdered, there isn't a lot of suspense to be generated about whether King will live to collect Social Security. Blue is a good, tough, hard-edged character ("she only cries on cue," someone says of her), and a straight-ahead, page-turner approach might have worked...
...raised key interest rates by a whopping one-half of 1 percent today. The discount rate and the federal funds rate now stand at 4 percent and 4.75 percent respectively. (Both are rates that the central bank charges banks for loans.) Private banks dutifully took Fed chief Greenspan's cue and raised their lending rates as well.While a rate hike was anticipated, its magnitude was not: previously, economists pegged the increase to 0.25 percent. Today's action has the Democrats in Congress more than slightly peeved at Greenspan. And rightly so, says TIME's Business assistant editor Bernard Baumohl. Because...
Absolutely, positively not to be missed is Wishman's transsexual mock-documentary, "Let Me Die a Woman." The film follows the patients of one Dr. Leo Wollman. A minister, a psychologist, a sex-therapist and a surgeon who looks like he could repair your 1972 Gremlin, Wollman reads his cue cards very well. A sad portrait of the third sex, the film asks, and attempts to answer, "What, who and why are transsexuals?" Wishman says that she "felt so sorry for these people" and "felt as if she had exploited them." But then quickly counters with the fact that...