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Students rose to defend the quotations, arguing they didn't detract from the book's actual purpose of rating courses. "The quotes are not the import of the guide" and "don't affect the evaluation" of the courses, said Sara L. Norman '90, the CUE guide editor...

Author: By Kelly D. Eckel, | Title: Professors Angered By CUE Guide Quotations | 10/28/1988 | See Source »

Those are the groups in the basements. The groups in the big brick buildings detract from the Harvard community when they affect it at all. I'd like to see them switch places...

Author: By Martha A. Bridegam, | Title: Recycle the Clubs | 10/22/1988 | See Source »

...costuming is ingenious. Houston's Inns 'n Outts strut onstage painted up as the four gray visages of Mount Rushmore. A Virginia quartet appears as clowns. Florida's Sidekicks prance on as doctors and plumbers. But the twelve judges are looking for more than slapstick. "Too much theatrics detract from sound quality," sniffs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Texas: Going for the Bird | 10/10/1988 | See Source »

...think the Quayle military-service flap will detract from the lift you otherwise would have obtained from the convention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Republicans3 16 2008 Bush: I Have to Wait and See | 8/29/1988 | See Source »

...these responsibilities, which most of her white peers do not share, detract from her own academic pursuits, Herron says. And scholarship is the key to tenure at Harvard. "If I only improved courses and didn't write a book, it would be academic suicide," she says, adding that she is currently working on a book. Other Black women faculty members are needed, Herron says, to help diffuse the responsibilities...

Author: By Ross G. Forman, | Title: The Overburdening of the Underrepresented | 6/9/1988 | See Source »

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