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...Legal Services Center of Harvard Law School moved last week to a new location in Jamaica Plain, said Dean of the Law School Robert C. Clark...

Author: By David B. Lat, | Title: Legal Services Center Moves | 4/7/1993 | See Source »

...were blank on the rating side and 12 were blank on the comment side. Of the 12 commenting I would say that four were constructive ("his somewhat caustic manner sometimes hides his concern and can be disconcerting"), two were simply laudatory ("Adam was great!") and two were just plain rude ("leads idiotic discussion")--though not necessarily accurate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bad Sections Won't Be Solved by CUE Guide Alone | 4/6/1993 | See Source »

...version of Huck's wayward youth gets most of Twain's words right, even if the music sounds like a TV jingle. Huck (plucky Elijah Wood) eludes his troglodyte father (Ron Perlman, doing an uncanny Tom Waits impression) for an eventful honeymoon on a raft with Nigger Jim (just plain Jim here, in a nicely balanced performance by Courtney B. Vance). Huck's runaway mouth gets them in trouble, and his wit gets them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Art of Childhood | 4/5/1993 | See Source »

...goes for "administrative overhead," producing savings that, according to the General Accounting Office, would be sufficient to insure everyone, without deductibles, coinsurance or Oregon-style rationing. It would still be the job of the new single payer to crack down -- not on consumer overutilization but on rampant profiteering and plain old corruption (doctors referring patients to their own profitmaking CAT-scanning facilities, for example...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Cure for the Wrong Disease | 3/29/1993 | See Source »

...woman nonlegislator with the same background (a French-speaking socialist) and roughly similar political views (a reduced role for the military, pro-E.C.). The principal difference between the rejected Christiane Brunner and winner Ruth Dreifuss, says Dreifuss, is that "I reassure people because I look a little plain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Swiss Ms. | 3/22/1993 | See Source »

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