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Bowersock has stated "enforcing was a word I never intended to use in connection with these reforms." Persuading, he adds, might be more appropriate. "We can't knock heads together in the university," Bowersock argues. "That's not the way we work." But without a few sharp raps on some professorial pates, the tutorial program can never work...

Author: By Susan C. Faludi, | Title: Tutorials: Aging Gracelessly | 3/10/1979 | See Source »

...this point, most people didn't even know if this conference had been worth it, let alone whether they wanted another one. At first students tried to amend the proposal to knock out the seven slots afforded the current conference organizers and to change the wording so that there might be a conference next year if people thought it wise. But resentment and grumbling was rising in the ranks. The organizers put a new chairman in charge of the meeting to keep order, but he couldn't stem the rebellious tide. Eventually, delegates tabled the whole idea in disgust, thereby...

Author: By Eric B. Fried, | Title: Philadelphia Story | 3/7/1979 | See Source »

...puns and a male kickline deals with spies in Near East opium dens and a butler who, quoting T.S. Eliot, foils a dastardly scheme to prevent forever Anglo-Saxon morality. Or something like that. The plot doesn't really matter, with all those sumptuous sets and gorgeous costumes and knock-out numbers. And those legs. At the Hasty Pudding Theater (would any decent place house this show...

Author: By Troy Segal, | Title: 'Listening In' on 'Children;' Week II for Chapter II | 3/1/1979 | See Source »

...enter into the making of foreign policy. But moral considerations, such as Carter's vaunted human rights policy, must be defined solely as an end, not a means, of U.S. foreign policy. Expressions of concern for human rights violations should not be used as a lever designed to knock a government off balance or to make short-term political capital. Too often the United States has callously and inconsistently used its human rights policy as a geopolitical bargaining chip without regard for genuine human suffering in many nations...

Author: By Thomas M. Levenson, | Title: Playing the Same Old Song | 2/22/1979 | See Source »

This will be the last time seniors Bob Hooft and Fine have a chance to knock off Princeton. It will also be a kind of anniversary of Harvard's upset over Penn last year, a game in which both Hooft and Fine starred for the Crimson...

Author: By Bill Ginsberg, | Title: Cagers, Aquamen Hit the Road for the Weekend | 2/16/1979 | See Source »

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