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...professors have formed an alliance to develop programs to help in mastering basic material such as the rules of accounting tax, property, and evidence. Although these exercise are optional, over half the class has used them in some large courses. A more venturesome creation permits students to watch a mock trail on a screen and objects at any point to the questions asked of witnesses. With each objection, a computer asks students to choose the ground for intervening from a list of possible reasons. If the student answers correctly, the computer so states and the trial resumes. If the student...
...REAGAN'S DESCRIPTION of the Contra rebels fighting Nicaragua's Sandinista government as "the moral equal of our Founding Father's found surprising acceptance his month at the normally liberal BROWN UNIVERSITY, where students joined townspeople in re-enacting the Contras' heroie struggle. Over 75 "Freedom Fighters" staged a mock Contra take-over of downtown Providence on April Fool, Day, replete with khaki fatigues, mock rifles, and cardboard tanks. After an hour of make-belive firing squad executions of "communist sympathizers," the play freedom fighters proclaimed victory from the steps of City Hall and declared Rhode Island's capital under...
...Monchengladbach that got the prize for Hollein. The three-year-old hillside museum is like a tiny town within a town, an agglomeration of distinct but compatible structures, a labyrinth set on its own stone Platz. Undula- ting red brick terraces hug the slope, relaxed and vaguely mock-ancient, not abrasive Disneyland replicas. As ever, Hollein succeeds in pleasing with the highly particular small space, the odd cutout corner or voluptuous semicircular marble stair. Monchengladbach has the virtuoso exuberance of a big, ambitious first novel, brimming with every story fragment and shimmery turn of phrase the author can muster...
...plans to carry on the battle for hearts and minds with a book, a weekly syndicated newspaper column on international affairs and a busy schedule of speaking engagements. Kirkpatrick merely smiled as talk turned to a possible presidential candidacy in 1988, but there was no equivocating over a mock recruiting telegram from Georgetown's top-ranked Hoyas. "How about that!" said Kirkpatrick as she opened the accompanying gift of basketball jersey, shorts and a pair of snappy reflecting sunglasses. "Go Hoyas!" she cheered. And look out under the hoop, you guys...
Again, South Africa seemed trapped in a vicious cycle: the fear of repression had sparked resentment, and the expression of that resentment had set off more repression. But last week's disturbances were especially dispiriting because they seemed to mock a host of recent hints by the white minority government that it might be open to relaxing its system of apartheid, or official separation of the races. Less than three weeks before the rioting at Crossroads, the government had pledged to suspend, and reassess, its policy of forcibly resettling blacks. A week before the sudden arrest of the opposition leaders...