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Solution: Install a pamphlet holder on the side of Harvard Hall that contains postcards with images of people standing in front of the statue. The faces on the cards will be cut-out, so visitors can paste into the holes the photograph of their choice--their own mug, or that of a well-known political figure, or Dom Deluise, or even a beloved household...
...Shepard, Stoppard, Shakespeare and Sullivan (with Gilbert). Also ahead of us though are Cibula, Smith, Davenport and Yang--four undergraduate playwrights getting their scripts produced. These particular plays are difficult to classify, ranging from Sweet Sins, a drama about domestic violence to A Nite-Lite, which the Common Casting pamphlet describes only as, "Urban. Absurd. Harsh. Ludicrous. Surprising. Possible...
Ginn was selling props -- magic wands that turn into rubber snakes, and whatnot -- and he punctuated his pitch Henny Youngman-style: "Talk about a cheap gag. This'll make you gag, Charlie." Then Bill Anderson came out to talk about using ventriloquism in church work. He had written a pamphlet of 111 different ways to use it, one paragraph devoted to each method, and he mentioned all 111. A sample: "Use your dummy for free advertising. Take your dummy to a clothing store to get a new suit, or a barber shop to get his hair cut, and call...
Perhaps this help is slowly forthcoming. A pamphlet released in draft form last month by a low-profile graduate-student group called Students for Empowerment seems to indicate that at least a few people out there are upset enough to write out a thoughtful, six-page indictment of the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities...
When Secretary of Education William Bennett proudly issued a distillation of research about teaching and learning titled What Works, he was panned by professional educators who said much of the pamphlet was "common sense." Bennett hardly noticed. "The President loved it," he said, then galloped off joyously, his briefcase stuffed with copies of What Works. (What does work: parents' reading to young children, memorizing, homework...