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...surprise that so few students concentrate in the sciences after they have gone through introductory math and science courses here. Few people could be encouraged by the mediocre learning experiences they often find in these courses. Many of the introductory classes may have star professors with excellent subject knowledge and lecturing ability, but that does not suffice to teach students effectively. Sections are a large part of the learning experience in such courses, but many courses seem to dump teaching fellows indiscriminately on their students with little concern for the outcome. If the University wants people to enjoy and become...
...raiders have often been victims of their success. Fancying themselves managers as well as marauders, they built huge but shaky empires that rested on debt. Result: their vast borrowings at sky-high interest rates left companies ranging from TWA to Allied department stores awash in red ink. "Many of the raiders' problems are self-inflicted," says Stuart Bruchey, a professor of economic history at the Columbia University Business School. "They jump into businesses that they don't understand, and expect to jump out with a quick profit. But they end up getting badly bogged down...
Still, a hulking hot-dog stand is often a lesser evil than what some developers want to put in its place. When a new mini-mall threatened to replace the Minuteman Carwash in Los Angeles, a 1960 building sporting a boomerang-shape decoration on its roof, neighborhood residents petitioned the Cultural Heritage Commission of Los Angeles to declare it a landmark. The ploy failed, but the case attracted the attention of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the largest preservation organization in the U.S. Says trust spokeswoman Courtney Damkroger: "If something like this gas station is designated a landmark locally...
Newly relaxed censorship restrictions now open the way for distribution of Havel's essays and plays, which are often likened to the absurdist works of Ionesco and Beckett. What Czechoslovaks will discover is a painstaking attention to the elaborate web of falsification that for so long enabled a despised leadership to maintain its grip. Havel's work depicts the idiocy of entrenched bureaucracies and the power of language to twist and distort ideas. It also highlights the unwitting complicity of ordinary citizens in the maintenance of totalitarian regimes. "Everyone is in fact involved and enslaved," Havel once told TIME. "Each...
...University's School of Medicine: "The technological imperative obliterates the person altogether. It acts as if the person doesn't exist -- that she has no personality, no family, and that no one who loves her can make decisions about her." But other experts believe that advocates of self-determination often skip over a basic question in incompetent-patient cases. Asks University of Michigan law professor Yale Kamisar: "Whose rights are being fought for, Nancy Cruzan's or her parents? Whose preferences are being advanced...