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...into the role of paranoid-schizophrenic idealist Susan Brock, Meryl Streep electrifies the screen in Fred Schepisi's otherwise disappointing Plenty. Adapted from the London stage play by David Hare, Plenty chronicles the disillusionment of a young English woman, played by Streep, who cannot come to grips with an imperfect world after actively serving in the French Resistance during World War II. Haunted by the fear that mankind has failed to "grow up" after the Holocaust, Susan sets out on a masochistic mission of self-destruction, punishing herself as a representative member of an unfeeling generation that needs remediation...
Klitgaard then proceeds to deal with the problems raised in attempts to meet whatever objectives are chosen for an admissions policy. The central problem is how universities can, with "incomplete and imperfect" information, select the best candidates to meet those objectives. Klitgaard utilizes the vast realm of literature on the various factors aiding prediction both of academic success in universities and of later-life success: grades, standardized tests, interviews, letters of recommendation, intelligence tests, and the like. He closes with a chapter on preferential admissions for minorities, the topic that inflamed the campus five years...
...life resembles a far-fetched hard-luck version of the actual Willie Nelson saga, but it is first and foremost a rolling, highly entertaining chronicle of its own. I all of all kinds of deadpan golden nuggets of humor--greasy, love-to-hate-'em Williams; imperfect but irresistable heroes; hard drinking, good friends, good loving, heartache, strumming acoustic guitar accompaniment--the tale can sound too much like your generic hit country song. But as Doc sings, "We write what we live And we live what we write." And Bud Shrake's off-beat, unpretentious script and Man Rudolph's even...
...acclimate Russian immigrant families to American life, they teach Cambridge youth to dance: they oversee and staff a multitudes of programs under the auspices and funding of Phillips Brooks House, the Catholic Student Center, Harvard/Radcliffe and other community agencies. I, along hundreds, choose to channel my discontent at an imperfect world into concrete action to better my community. We are "fired up about something [we] care about, "Mr. Rosenthal, and just because our discontent doesn't make the 11 o'clock news, or The Times, or The Crimson, doesn't mean it isn't there...
...third conceivable outcome: the U.S. might conclude that it could, at enormous expense, build an imperfect but effective Star Wars system that the Soviets could counter only by extraordinary, costly and dangerous countermeasures. That would probably bring both nations, and the world, to a truly fateful decision: an arms race surpassing anything thus far imagined, or an arms-control deal reducing all categories of weapons. There would be precious little in between...