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...female students have role models of both sexes, professional relationships between faculty members as well as student-faculty relationships will continue to be bounded by and limited to the realm of the sexual. (In this context, it is easy to infer that student peer harassment is part and parcel of the power imbalance which exists on the faculty level...

Author: By Ann Pellegrini, | Title: The Issue in Perspective | 2/28/1985 | See Source »

GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS. The American dream is a swindle, an overpriced parcel of Florida swampland peddled by shark-eyed salesmen. David Mamet's message is sour, but his ear-to-the-gutter dialogue is monstrously entertaining. A 1984 Pulitzer prizewinner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Best of 84: Theater | 1/7/1985 | See Source »

...service announced last week that a one-ounce letter, which has cost 200 since November 1981, will require a 220 stamp starting next February. The cost of sending postcards will go from 130 to 140, second-class mail like magazines will rise 14.2%, bulk-rate third-class 13.8%, and parcel post...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mail: The Postman Rings Twice | 12/24/1984 | See Source »

...some 60 planes arrive with a mountain of packages to be sorted and reloaded on the jets, which take off again between 2:50 a.m. and 4 a.m. Federal's 761,000-sq.-ft. complex contains 20 miles of conveyor belts. Computers track the location of each parcel, enabling the company to meet its deadline on 99% of packages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Delivering the Goodies | 12/17/1984 | See Source »

...that packages were being held for them. When suspects telephoned to ask what their boxes contained, they were given a description of items tailored to their interests. One rapist, for example, was told that a package held adult toys and pornographic material. When the suspect agreed to take the parcel, the "delivery man" showed up with back-up arrest units...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A FIST for Fugitives | 12/3/1984 | See Source »

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