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...encouraged those [science and math] departments to certify freshman seminars as fulfilling the [general education] requirements," Palmer says. "It is ideal for students that are not going to major in that area...
...there is the sadness of it. The Olympic ideal is inherently nostalgic, and seems, every four years, to be increasingly remote from the dream of a time when beautiful humans could perform godly feats for their own magnificent sake, without commercials, and without the benefit of sinister, alchemical prescriptions - pills that extract gold from stolid hulks...
...never reached the top of the list--even before she seemingly took herself out of the race--mainly, many say, because, at 60, she is beyond the ideal age for a new president who is expected to stay at least a decade in the post. Rudenstine was 56 when he was appointed...
...sure that harmony can be willed. Now a high school student in Benton, Ill., she too was four when her parents called it quits. She says she has no memories of the trauma, just an abiding skepticism about marriage and a resolve to settle for nothing less than the ideal man. "I don't want my kids to wind up in a single-parent situation," she says. "And I don't want to have kids with a man I don't want to be married to forever. I don't believe in the fairy tale. I hope it exists...
...comparison, George W. Bush was nearly mute on what might have seemed an ideal issue for a Republican, commenting vaguely about the responsibilities of parents and movie theaters. It may be that his campaign decided that bashing Hollywood didn't work for Bob Dole in 1996. Or it could be that the entire subject is not particularly comfortable for a candidate who sat for 10 years on the board of Silver Screen Management Services Inc., a New York-based firm that financed more than two-dozen R-rated movies. The Hitcher, one of its films for Home Box Office (which...