Word: draggings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...INCREDIBLE how many things could have gone wrong with Working and didn't. Incredible that two and a half hours of taken-front-life monologues about the laborer's lot wouldn't drag, that Harvard students could stand up in front of their friends and roommates and deliver lines like "Sure I'd like to do something other than work in a factory. But if that's all you know how to do, that's what you do" and "Jobs are not big enough for people" without sounding like Soc Stud burnouts. Or, for that matter, that the full-stage...
...that Reagan's policies caused the recession, the President has been even less successful in convincing them that he is bringing it to an end. A startling 77% of those polled by Yankelovich expect the slump to persist all through 1983, vs. 14% who believe that it will drag on only a few more months...
...Hoping to squeeze out a few more screams (and mercilessly to drag the production out to full feature length) the story then goes on to an exorcism, when the mostly irrelevant Father Tom (Andrew Prine) risks his career, and his life, to wage war with the devil. Sonny's body serving as the battlefield...
...gotten, for plagiarism is the most serious academic crime possible. Her pathetic attempts to weasel out of penalties on sophistries--she insisted just two weeks ago that "there was no attempt on my part to deceive" her Spanish professor--warrant equal criticism. But as her legal appeals drag through the courts interminably, it becomes increasingly clear that other issues relating to the campus case--besides just how unethical Napolitano's behavior has been--are much more intriguing...
...students. The Administrative Board, which Fox chairs, may seem big and had, but before on jumps to conclusions, it's worth realizing that Harvard's disciplinary policies diverge from those of most schools in ways that make the University both more merciful and less prone to public knock-down drag-outs like Napolitano's. Consider the following two aspects of Harvard's approach to punishment...