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This isn't really funny in itself; the episode works because it's so out of whack with the dramatics of the plot, so smirkingly contemptuous of Dickenson's character, so unnecessary and marginal to the movie's main action and yet inflated to appear like a crucial scene. Most...
The tangle of teaching troubles is too complex to be easily unraveled. But one problem whose solution seems fairly straightforward is the matter of illiterate and uninformed teachers. Competency tests can-and should-be administered to screen out teachers, old as well as novice, who lack basic skills. Such screening...
Despite such cautionary notes, it was the panel's views on cholesterol that stirred critics. Since turn-of-the-century Russian researchers showed that rabbits fed a diet rich in saturated fats and cholesterol develop hardening of the arteries, some doctors have suspected that the same thing happens in...
Today, Edward L. Keenan '57, dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences says Harvard's reluctance to continue the project stemmed from feelings that it was doomed to failure from the start. "We were talking about a 10-15 year start-up time," he says. Given a dearth...
Though he set his 20 previous novels in widely different locales, Author Graham Greene has always concentrated on a single terrain: the shadow zone where betrayal meets despair. This moral penumbra may fall across an entire country or bisect a drawing room or a double bed. Ordinary people can pass...