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...task--but they really shouldn't have any effect on someone's decision to cheat or not. A student should have to feel as if he is committing a shameful wrong--like beating a helpless child--not an amoral kind of crime--like a hungry man who steals a loaf of bread. It should be wrong to cheat. (period) and not just wrong to get caught...

Author: By Jeffrey S. Nordhaus, | Title: Let the Games Begin | 8/18/1987 | See Source »

...Sunday morning if this bread were not truly special? Has its moist, chewy middle not induced them to brave city streets where people have been mugged for their sneakers and murdered for a leather jacket? Are the triple-braided loaves not caked with sesame seeds? Does the round loaf not have a crust you can cut your gums...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New Jersey: Bread That Casts a Spell | 6/8/1987 | See Source »

...plot sprawls across 17 years, most of them so telescoped that to believe the tale spectators must make leaps of faith. Valjean first appears in chains; released after 19 years in prison for stealing a loaf of bread to save his sister's starving child, he remains unrepentant. Given shelter by a bishop, the hardened Valjean robs him, only to be recaptured by police; when the clergyman backs up his false claim that the booty was a gift, Valjean undergoes a moral transformation. He also undergoes a legal one: he destroys his papers, takes a new name and eventually becomes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: An Epic of the Downtrodden | 3/23/1987 | See Source »

...From early morning," Skarmeta's Neruda says, "the ocean begins its fantastic way of rising. It seems to be kneading an endless loaf of bread...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ON BOOKS | 2/10/1987 | See Source »

...course, is to borrow ferocity, but there are signs of change. Some years ago, students at Scottsdale Community College in Arizona voted to name their team the Artichokes and picked pink and white as the team colors. Authorities balked, but three years later students got half a loaf: the team is the Artichokes, but the colors are blue and white. Last year a similar nickname struggle took place. By 5 to 1, students at the University of California at Santa Cruz voted to call school teams the Banana Slugs in honor of a slimy yellow gastropod that swarms over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: What's in A Nickname? | 1/19/1987 | See Source »

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