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Bumbling university president got your school in a public relations mess? Who needs him? Coach Murphy can hobnob with the best of ’em. And boy does he like wine and cheese...
...these suggestions, if implemented, would amount to little more than superficial window-dressing; they are hopelessly myopic, and do not cut to the heart of the issue. At best, the above solutions would temporarily check grade inflation, would sweep the proverbial mess under the rug, would cover the thick cracks in the house that is Harvard with merely a thin layer of paint...
Unlike all past issues the latest contains just one story, completely self-contained in the single issue. But just to mess with us a bit, the narrative has been divided into 29 vignettes that range in length from a single strip to several pages. Some of them continue a running narrative throughout the book and others are just "one-shots." This Altman-esque technique of weaving different story threads across each other forms a tapestry of lives rather than a straight narrative...
...think they have a fighting chance-and they're as bloodthirsty as their visiting colleagues-at forcing India to start addressing decades of grievances. Given the stakes of a new India- Pakistan war, the rest of the world, especially Washington, might now become involved in untangling the Kashmir mess, a notion India has long abhorred. Which goes to show that when the world starts changing, no one knows where it's going to stop...
...hardly news that the immigration system is a mess. Foreign nationals have long been slipping across the border with bogus papers, and visitors who arrive in the U.S. legitimately often overstay their legal welcomes with impunity. But since Sept. 11, it's become clear that terrorists have been shrewdly factoring the weaknesses of our system into their plans. In addition to their mastery of forging passports, at least three of the 19 Sept. 11 hijackers were here on expired visas. That's been a safe bet until now. The Immigration and Naturalization Service lacks the resources, and apparently the inclination...