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Technology has made playing hooky all the easier. Most large lecture classes offer video- or audiotapes of lectures held on reserve in the libraries. Lecture notes, handouts and assignments are often posted on course Web sites. Most course logistics are handled by e-mail. And with digital submission of assignments in some departments, notably computer science, one could conceivably succeed in a course without ever setting foot in a classroom...
...Vassar's Board of Trustees rejected an offer by Yale University to move the school from Poughkeepsie, N.Y. and merge with the New Haven institution...
Despite the flurry of talks, peace remains elusive. "Moscow wants to see more concessions from the NATO side in order to be able to broker an agreement," says TIME Moscow correspondent Andrew Meier. "But NATO won't offer anything until the Russians can show some movement from Milosevic toward meeting NATO's demands, particularly on the nature of a peacekeeping force for Kosovo." Awkward as it may be, the diplomatic dance may be the only show in town. Even as NATO mounted new air raids and Washington ordered 33,000 reserves into the theater to support an escalated...
...aftermath of another famous trial, Ogletree used the print, rather than the virtual, medium to offer his analysis. He authored a chapter of the 1996 book Postmortem: The O.J. Simpson Case titled "Johnnie Cochran and Marcia Clark: Role Models...
Last week's long-anticipated blocking statistics offer the College a positive-but tentative-sense that some of the adverse effects of randomization predicted by its critics may not be born out in practice. But the data also raise concerns about ways in which students may be trying to avoid randomization's ill-effects by surrounding themselves with large groups of companions. Though the figures regarding the concentration of minority students in blocking groups raise interesting questions, the statistics are not yet conclusive enough for productive discussion. We hope to hear more from the College on the topic...