Word: instructive
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...remedy, the report urges different training for police, as well as a new reward system that will encourage officers to make "better" arrests. It cites, for example, a recent collaborative experiment in which Washington police and a team of prosecutors combined forces to instruct officers in such elementary matters as interviewing witnesses, verifying the accuracy of their information and advising them on what is expected of a witness in court. The report praises imaginative crime-control tactics like Washington's Operation Sting, in which phony fences were set up to receive stolen goods while officials secretly photographed and recorded...
...report, recommended that the elite concentrations be opened if the resources could be found to handle the influx of students. The report said the elite stature of the concentrations was unfair and unnecessary. The task force had only one dissenter, Alan E. Heimert '49, chairman of the committee of instruction of History and Literature, who argued that the task force failed to consider the interdisciplinary nature of History and Literature and the special combination of skills of interests the field requires from students. Heimert said that the provision to allocate more resources does not consider the scarcity of graduate students...
...Faculty is scheduled to vote on legislation which would instruct Dean Rosovsky to appoint subcommittees to design courses in five core areas--literature and the arts, history, social and philosophical analysis, mathematics and science, and foreign languages and cultures...
...sells potholders, rifles garbage cans and chats with little guys in flying saucers. "Tell them the world is cracked," one of them commanded her a while back. "Boy," she sighs, "did I know that." If nobody believes her when she says the world is cracked, her friends from space instruct her, she should take the message to the National Enquirer. "Even if they don't believe you," the saucerites say, "they might run it anyway...
...even changed the group's name. Once the Nation of Islam, it now calls itself the World Community of Islam in the West, or the Bilalians, in honor of Bilal, Mohammed's first black follower. Ministers, now termed imams, are expected to instruct members in the Koran and the Bible. At "temples," renamed "mosques," the seats have been ripped out so that members can prostrate themselves during prayer. Wallace also stresses such traditional "pillars" of observance as the month-long fast of Ramadan, the five daily prayers while facing Mecca, and the Hajj (pilgrimage...