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...through too many lectures where a lame professor belabors the same point for twenty minutes and I end up with less than a half page of notes at the end of class, and drool on the side of my mouth from dozing off. (The dozing off is a consequence, not a cause, of my paucity of notes.) On the other hand, some professors' lectures are so dense that it's virtually impossible to make sense of what they're saying. In both cases, a written copy of the lecture material might make the presentations more rigorous, comprehensive and comprehensible...

Author: By Dan E. Markel, | Title: Educating Harvard | 4/13/1993 | See Source »

...dusk. The bruised voice across the banquet table belonged to an interpreter -- off duty for the moment -- a thin, brittle woman with black circles under her eyes. She smoked cigarettes one after another, down to the knuckle. She said she had not slept in days. Outrage burst from her mouth in agitated spurts of smoke: How could the world be so stupid? How could the media be so evil? How could everyone treat the Serbs -- the Serbs, of all people! -- so unfairly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Moral Mystery: Serbian Self-Pity | 4/12/1993 | See Source »

...subjects, such as the exquisite portrait of a young knight surrounded by the gleaming black weapons of his vocation, a dense still life with religious overtones (the handle and pommel of the sword are also a cross), the bony silence of the knight's face contrasting with the open mouth of his page. But the most enduring product of the relation between Titian and Giorgione was the pastoral...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Brush With Genius | 4/12/1993 | See Source »

...WANDA HOLLOWAY, THE TEXas housewife accused of trying to hire a hit man to murder the mother of her daughter's cheerleading rival, Holly Hunter is like a clenched tornado. She talks so fast the words barely make it out of her mouth; expressions flash on and off her face in milliseconds. Plotting the crime with her former brother-in-law (who turned her in to the police before it could be carried out), she keeps bursting into giggling shrieks, a schoolgirl titillated by the brazenness of her own amorality. A control freak to the end, she demands instructions from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Texas Tornado | 4/12/1993 | See Source »

...bogey-bogey-bogey finish, including a three-putt green at the 18th, left a sour taste in his mouth following...

Author: By Darren Kilfara, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Golf Wins Key Yale Matchup | 4/9/1993 | See Source »

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