Word: hooked
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This is especially true if we want affirmative action to work. Administrators, professors, and students who support affirmative action are letting students from disadvantaged backgrounds off the hook precisely when these students most need to catch up and take full advantage of the educational opportunities now available to them. By relaxing academic standards and excusing less-than-stellar achievement, we engage in the worst form of condescension. We are denying disadvantaged minorities the very legacy of the civil rights movement: a chance to prove themselves more than capable of meeting equal standards...
...success, Kiss is also -- and here is the hook that intrigues Broadway -- a proven flop. An earlier version received a multimillion-dollar 1990 tryout off-Broadway -- about 25 miles off, at a suburban campus of the State University of New York. The producers implored critics to stay away because the work was in development, but reportorial instincts prevailed. Reviewers came, saw and slaughtered, halting Kiss and killing its sponsor, a fledgling agency set up to nurture musicals. Prince now says, "Irony of ironies, the fiasco may have helped. The show's political consciousness is much better suited to this moment...
...others shared Kennedy's concern about the representation of women in Inside Edge, which contains an article advising men to "hook up with someone else" if they want to break up with their girlfriends and an article on weight-training that states that "Nautilus leg equipment is made for women who want their thighs to look nice. It's a waste for serious athletes...
...Russian cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev, who was stranded in space for months by political maneuverings during the Soviet Union's breakup, will fly on a U.S. shuttle. In 1995 an American astronaut will be a guest aboard Russia's Mir space station. And in the same year, a shuttle will hook up with Mir, possibly to retrieve the American astronaut, using a Russian docking adapter...
Some of the projects seem more impressive than they are. TCI customers in the suburbs of Denver already have what looks like true video on demand. By pointing a remote control at the TV set, they can select from among 2,000 offerings (from Hook to old Marx Brothers movies to last night's MacNeil Lehrer NewsHour) and have their choices appear on screen whenever they want them, any time, day or night. But behind the high-tech service is an almost laughably low-tech delivery system. When a customer presses the Enter button, a bell goes...