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...BORING to listen to all the debate over honors legislation given all the more pressing problems afflicting Harvard undergraduate education, from the poor quality of many sections here to the inattention many departments pay their undergraduates. But insofar as the honors rules reflect Harvard's attitude towards academic achievement, they ought to be changed; all they are reflecting now is a tolerance for the average...
...Facts" [PRESS, July 2], which properly criticizes a New Yorker writer for inventing scenes and using composite characters in non-fiction reportage, you wrote, "Reviewers challenged the reconstructed dialogue in David McClintick's 1982 Hollywood exposé, Indecent Exposure, and Don Kowet's A Matter of Honor. "Insofar as it pertains to Indecent Exposure, the statement is demonstrably false. No facts were altered in Indecent Exposure for any purpose. Reviewers in general did not "challenge" or otherwise criticize the reconstructed dialogue. Indeed, many reviewers praised the meticulous handling of the dialogue as well as the overall accuracy...
...power without taking the risk of sending them packing. The outcome came as a blow to most of the ten leaders who will meet this week in the French city of Fontainebleau to deal with issues that have condemned the Community to semiparalysis. Said a senior official in Brussels: "Insofar as everyone emerges weaker, it is not good. There are only negative signs...
...think I hurt people by living," Scum maintains. "My maniacal insistence on living my own life is in itself a terrible violation of everybody else." The reader sees little of such conflict. Insofar as the other characters have any life outside of Scum's ruminations, they are as simple and warm-hearted an assortment of waifs and eccentrics as can be found anywhere this side of William Saroyan...
...Insofar as theState Department is concerned, there's absolutely no funding to Mr.Duarte or, indeed, any party. Obviously we can't speak for theCIA." -John Hughes...