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When cancelling a student's test score becauseof cheating, ETS does not inform a college of thereason for cancellation...

Author: By Joshua A. Gerstein, | Title: Freshman Exposes SAT Flaws | 2/7/1989 | See Source »

...Network members meet three or four times a year, but their primary purpose is to inform grieving students, faculty and staff members of Life Raft's existence and provide supplemental help. A Network member may refer students with religious concerns to the religious authorities of their denominations. If students have medical questions, the Network member may refer them to qualified physicians...

Author: By Carolyn J. Sporn, | Title: A Comfortable Place to Cry | 1/4/1989 | See Source »

...White is a prime example of a shady fixture in American justice: the jailhouse snitch. Over the past decade White -- whose rap sheet lists crimes ranging from purse snatching to kidnaping -- has testified against at least a dozen California inmates who he claimed confessed their guilt to him. With information he provided, authorities have unearthed the bodies of murder victims and prosecuted a prison gang leader for murder. In exchange, lawmen accorded him special privileges, including early release, during his frequent returns to the slammer. "Every time I come in here," White boasts, "I inform and get back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Snitch's Story | 12/12/1988 | See Source »

...murderers at last to some rough justice under federal anticonspiracy statutes. That seems unlikely, especially given Hoover's hatred of Martin Luther King and his allies. Still, narrow historical criticism somehow seems irrelevant to a movie that so powerfully reanimates the past for the best of reasons: to inform the spirit of today and possibly tomorrow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Fire in the South MISSISSIPPI BURNING | 12/5/1988 | See Source »

Burnished by Gene Hackman' s strong acting, Mississippi Burning recalls the past -- violence in the civil rights movement -- to inform the spirit of today, and perhaps tomorrow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page December 5, 1988 | 12/5/1988 | See Source »

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