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...variable meal plan is based on various models at other colleges. One option, practiced by Dartmouth, MIT and Columbia, is the "point system," in which students have a fixed number of credits which are deducted either per item or per meal. Other schools--Boston University is one--employ a combination plan, in which students are guaranteed a certain number of meals per week and pay for the rest with an allotment of meal points...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Room for Improvement | 4/3/1990 | See Source »

...turn in scripts that are devoid of foul language lest the classification office impose the curse of a G (general) rating. Motion-picture exhibitors have a strong preference for the R (restricted) rating, probably on the theory of forbidden fruit. Hence writers and producers have every incentive to employ tasteless language and gory scenes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Decline of Neatness | 4/2/1990 | See Source »

...March 1, Baker told a House subcommittee, "We've really done pretty much all we can do . . . we are awaiting a response from the Israeli government." In his testimony, Baker riled Israelis by saying that he was "satisfied" the Palestine Liberation Organization was adhering to its commitment not to employ terrorism against Israel, that he favors cuts in aid to Israel and that Israel must agree to halt all settlement activity in the occupied territories before the U.S. would approve $400 million in loan guarantees for housing Soviet Jewish immigrants. Two days later, President Bush raised the fever in Jerusalem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East Four Steps to Peace | 3/19/1990 | See Source »

...cross the border to the West, which was a fantastic relief. I felt it was a miracle. I crossed the border with my KGB identification card in my pocket. For some reason, the KGB did not dismiss me after my interrogation, so I was still in its employ when I escaped, though I had been removed from my previous position. I think they suspected I was working for the West and hoped to get more evidence against me before they executed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Interview with OLEG GORDIEVSKY: How the KGB Helps Gorbachev | 3/5/1990 | See Source »

...action did the Harvard administration take to investigate the woman's charge of "obscenity"? The privacy of gay men was invaded in the name of protecting the interests of the "majority". Yet when a women was attacked in the Law School parking lot last year, what happened? Did Harvard employ new measure to protect the safety of women--the minority--on campus...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Two Views on PC Ideology | 2/24/1990 | See Source »

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