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Eventually, he may learn to apply this editing skill to the excesses that mar the novel--a rich attachment to vulgarity, including a deadening level of profanity and a comically exaggerated preoccupation with smells. Clearly, Weiss wants the reader to accept Burry as a fatal temptress. But it does not help to be told early on that her aroma is "part B.O. and maybe patchouli...
Erica S. Schacter's editorial "More Courses in the Core" (ed., Mar. 21, 1995) makes an interesting and valuable addition to the debate on the validity of the Core as an entity and the logic of the requirements as they currently stand. She misses, however, an important point. Although humanities courses cannot be substituted for core requirements, core classes themselves can often be used to fulfill humanities concentration requirements. Thus, for example, many a Social Studies concentrator fulfills part of his or her political theory requirement with a Moral Reasoning class, thereby killing the same proverbial two birds...
Prof. John C. Coffee Jr. of the Columbia Business School, quoted in the New York Times (Mar. 5, 1995). Coffee was referring to the case of Nicholas W. Leeson, the 'rogue trader' who caused the bankruptcy of Barings P.L.C...
Fifteen years. For the past 15 years, detective Mike Thomas (Mar Cartier) has gotten his hair cut eight times a week, just before concert pianist Isabella Czerny is stabbed in the throat with a deadly pair of scissors. One would think he'd have run out of hair by now, and she'd have moved away from the cursed hair salon where Boston's hilarious audience-participation murder mystery Shear Madness...
...they will pay agents just $25 per one-way domestic ticket and $50 per round-trip fare instead. To help make up the losses, Carlson Wagonlit will charge a $15 service fee beginning Apr. 1, and American Express will charge $20 for domestic tickets priced under $300 starting Mar. 6. "Many customers may now refuse to go to agents and pay the fee and instead do the homework themselves," says TIME business reporter Bernard Baumohl. Some airlines, he adds, are already encouraging customers to bypass agents and turn to online or airline-run "ticketless" reservation services. "This probably means that...