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Resident tutorship is a subsidy--undergraduates pay for graduate students to live in the houses. Tutors have told me that they regard their post as a mini-fellowship. My experience on a tutor selection committee bears this out. Applicants were more likely to vaunt their Rhodes and Marshall scholarships than their experience as a camp counselor, advisor, or teacher...
Perhaps such mini-fellowships are a good idea; they need to be debated on their merits. It is profoundly dishonest, however, to cloak this subsidy with the mantle of benefiting the students...
While computer-aided publishing has been around since the days when mini-computers were king, DTP refers specifically to document layouts done on personal computers. As these desktop personal systems become more powerful, increasingly sophisticated layout requirements can be met in less time and with lower cost...
...Those shows, however, look like MTV next to Dr. Quinn. Jane Seymour, queen of the network mini-series, stars as the graduate of an Eastern women's medical college who answers an ad and moves west to practice in Colorado Springs in the 1860s. The residents are surprised and dismayed to discover that their new doctor is a woman (her name, unhelpfully, is Michaela), but she quickly proves her skills. In the meantime, she takes over the care of three youngsters whose mother has died of a rattlesnake bite. "After my real ma went to heaven, Dr. Mike...
Treacle like that goes down easier when the storytelling is as confident and plainspoken as it is here. Unlike, say, the recent mini-series Queen, Dr. Quinn is hokum without an agenda, other than re-creating some old-time TV pleasures. The town characters -- a naive telegraph operator, a good-hearted prostitute, a smoldering hunk who hangs out with a pet wolf -- are colorful in the innocent, pre-Bochco sense of the word, and the series has sweep and moral heft. (For the opening credits, the screen is even masked at the top and bottom to simulate a CinemaScope epic...