Word: foxes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...thought it was corny when people told me `Oh, I learned so much in a seminar,'" says Fox Tree. "But when I took it, it was definitely true...
...comfortable atmosphere to work in, as opposed to a lecture or a section," agreed Jean E. Fox Tree '88, a student in Khoshbin's seminar last fall...
Some students say they welcomed the opportunity to study with people outside of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Fox Tree says that Khoshbin "brought us over to the Med School one night and showed us around. It was really important to see how the kind of things I'm doing now could be applied to a professional school...
Exhibit A is America's Most Wanted, the new Fox network series that tries to enlist viewers in tracking down criminals on the lam. Each half-hour episode showcases two or three crimes, with the emphasis on brutal rapes and murders. Witnesses and law-enforcement agents are interviewed, and the crime is shown in a dramatized "re-creation." Viewers are then urged to phone in any information on a toll-free hotline, while investigators stand by to pursue leads. Since its Feb. 7 debut, 13 suspects profiled on the show have been apprehended...
This is not the first time TV has ventured into real-life crime solving. NBC's occasional Unsolved Mysteries specials, for instance, have presented similar crime re-enactments (and helped catch five suspects). But doubtless, what makes America's Most Wanted the highest-rated show on the Fox network's schedule is the tabloid sensationalism of its crime dramatizations. The hand- held camera, slow-motion scenes of violence, and point-of-view shots of the victim cowering or the murderer attacking might have been lifted straight from Friday the 13th. Equally unsettling is the juxtaposition of these lurid minidramas with...