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...Culver, 37, a former history teacher, began with an hour-long PowerPoint presentation on the history of the caucus going back to 1846, a sign-language interpreter flashed signs - even though not a single person in the room was deaf. It hit me about 15 minutes into the speech that the sign-language guy must have realized no one there was deaf, but by that time it was too embarrassing to just stop. So he kept going, his bravery a further testimony to the lengths Iowans go through just to get David Broder to visit...
...their uniform of khaki pants and white polo or Oxford shirt, then line up single file to go to the cafeteria for breakfast. Classes begin at 8 a.m. and last until 4 p.m. The late-afternoon hours are filled with extracurricular activities that range from choir to flag football. After dinner, the students go back to their dorms for an hour-long study hall before a half-hour of "quiet time," then to bed. There are few behavior problems. "They don't have a lot of time to get into that stuff," says Roz Fuller, the associate boarding director...
Starting next semester, the current system of coursepack distribution, with its paperwork and hour-long lines, will become a piece of Harvard history...
...with the TV sitcom The Honeymooners, as our Milestone on his death noted [Nov. 24]. Eighteen years ago, some early segments of the show were dug out of storage and released. They originally aired from 1952 to 1957, when The Honeymooners was a regular segment on Jackie Gleason's hour-long TV variety show. Our critic described these episodes in a May 13, 1985, report...
Tufts graduate student Greg Scarborough described the films as “shocking,” pointing to Bombies, an hour-long examination of the enduring ramifications of the secret war in Laos, as especially effective. In noting that the United States dropped over 2 million bombs in the area—or two tons of bombs for every Laotian man, woman and child—and that many of these “bombies” have not yet detonated, the film manages to convey the enormous consequences of the war. The documentary notes that the United States still...