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...doesn't please everyone. Critics complain he never lets plausible characters stand in the way of information; not much of a novelist but a hell of an educator. On the other hand, scientists have been known to say he saws the limb off behind him; no hotshot in the lab but a hell of a tap dancer with a word processor. Crichton is used to the charges. "Feeling conflicted, different, has been a fact of my life," Crichton told the Los Angeles Times. "Someone once compared me to a bat. 'Put a bat among birds,' he said, 'and they call...
...Language Requirement. Anyone who has suffered through the lingual hell of a Harvard placement exam realizes the problems in this area. There is no coordination between the material demanded by the language exams and the material taught. If German A or French A is enough to fill the language, the exam should reflect that...
...clean, well-lit, smoke-free lanes, and several hundred happy, busy, free-spending bowlers. He's a man with a mission. "It's going to take me a lot of years, maybe more than I have,'' he says. "But I think I can change the image of bowling a hell of a lot.'' And maybe in the process, as a local priest prayed at the stadium's opening ceremonies, make "this Big gest Little City become the bowling capital of the nation and the world.'' An auspicious sign: the invocation was delivered by Father Robert Bowling...
...heat of the sun was an earth-and-wood fortress ringed by pillboxes. But for the greenness, A Shau had a French Foreign Legion quality, Beau Geste without the sand. I stood there asking myself the question I am sure Roman legionnaires must have asked in Gaul-What the hell am I doing here...
...with it!" D'Amato roars. "Get with the program! No! Get your brain in synch." He tries to restrain himself, but it's hard. He cracks the whip about fund raising--"I'm not happy! Speed it up!"--then checks on an event. "How much we gonna gross? Hell, you gotta do better! Fifty percent of that? All right. It's better than a stick in the eye." He hangs up, looking fully alive. He can't keep the Old Al down...