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Harvard's counseling services appear to be attempting to practice what the administration preaches. The Office of Career Service's "Guide For Pre-Medical Students" stresses that medical schools "do not require that applicants major in science." Extensive counseling services are available in each House. While the advising systems differ in structure (some Houses utilize pre-medical committees, others rely on individual advisors for students, for example) students say they are generally efficient and satisfactory--their message that a non-science major is acceptable is clear. "Medical schools, it seems really don't care whether you major in science...

Author: By Robert M. Neer, | Title: Making med school easier to swallow | 6/7/1984 | See Source »

...truth, MacLaine's idea of home is a sound stage, or a rehearsal hall, or an airplane, or anywhere she can write. Her work may differ from year to year-she calls herself "a communicator"- but work in some form comes first. And she is prepared to suffer for it. For years, she had stage fright so acute that she would go through a show, step by step, in her sleep every night. Her feet are so sensitive that she changes shoes three or four times a day to vary the pressure points. Yet in rehearsal she dances until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Best Year Of Her Lives | 5/14/1984 | See Source »

...curiously passive book, Susan Brownmiller examines the historical basis for the wide range of ways in which men and women differ. Brownmiller invokes the concept of a "feminine ethic" and proffers numerous literary and historical anecdotes to support the idea of a feminine sphere of behavior Ultimately, though, Brownmiller ends most of her chapters with questions, not answers, and if she intended to leave her readers with a message, it is indecipherable...

Author: By Joanna R. Handelman, | Title: Lackadaisical 'Femininity' | 4/26/1984 | See Source »

...School jobs differ a lot from other processions, because the students are looking at several different job markets in government." Smith said, adding "Getting employment often involves a lot of politics and networking so faculty connections become more valuable...

Author: By Carla D. Williams, | Title: K-School Dean To Head Flynn Staff | 4/25/1984 | See Source »

...mining that are contained in transcripts of briefings from March 8 and 13. That certainly did not end the dispute. Since the briefings were secret, the transcripts were also, so there was no way to check exactly what Casey said. The recollections of Senators who attended the briefings differ so sharply that they might be describing different meetings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Explosion over Nicaragua | 4/23/1984 | See Source »

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