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...response to Maier’s report, Buttenwieser University Professor Stanley Hoffman said that while Core areas like history and quantitative reasoning would still be studied under a distributional requirement, he is concerned that students will no longer study moral reasoning and foreign cultures, which do not fall under the purview of any particular department...
Both Maier and Kirby assured Hoffman that the review will leave opportunities for students to study both subject matters...
...blaming U.S. Tobacco for manufacturing the product that caused her son Sean's cancer, but where was she when her twelve-year-old began dipping snuff? It is frightening to see so many children using tobacco. I believe that the primary responsibility lies with the parents. Saul Hoffman, M.D. New York City
Given this pervasive electronic wallpaper, Martin naturally describes characters in terms ready made for a passive audience. The lawyer he chooses to represent him in the divorce is "a guy who looked like Wayne Newton." An oddly menacing figure who turns up at Dominica's motel "looked like Dustin Hoffman, for some reason." Similarly, Martin reports on natural scenery most confidently when he can compare it to name-brand products. Walking along the beach, he notes that "the Gulf shined like mylar." Out for a drive, he remarks, "The clouds were like spills of dark Cool Whip going in slow...
...Although Hoffman assured several members of the crowd that the U.S. was safe from such an enormous eruption, a few students left incredulous...