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...after the May 1 election, Blair pledged that his party will end its regular consultations with trade unions -- no small promise given the unions' role as party founder and prime financial supporter. The move is more bad news for embattled Prime Minister John Major, who has seen his ratings plummet as Labour successfully co-opts his ideas on everything from crime to government spending. A frustrated Conservative Party Communications Director Charles Lewiston joked that the Labour leader wears an earpiece during interviews so that party handlers can give him updates on Labour's latest policy position. But Labour says Major...
...first Twenty and Sylvester cartoon, entitled "Birdy and the Beast." Sylvester looks very primitive in his pre-lisp days. The law of gravity is defied again when Sylvester takes to the air after Tweety, but, true to cartoon tradition, only after he realizes that he is flying does he plummet to the ground...
Over-enrollment, thy name is the Core. Without the Core, the average class size in a student's Harvard career would plummet. At other schools, distribution requirements are fulfilled in small seminar rooms tucked away in departmental buildings. Here, we often have to hope we make the lottery. Without addressing the limited choices offered in certain Core divisions, the University cannot seriously reform the quality of undergraduate teaching...
...river with a book or two and become sidetracked socializing, or perhaps close their eyes in the warmth and sleep in the sun. On a sunny day it's hard to resist a jog, a bike ride or a nap down by the river, and consequently grades would plummet from the happy B+/ A- territory to the occasional B-, and (ahhhh), maybe even C's would appear on a few papers...
...more thoughtful treatment of the ultimate boating mishap can be found in a Discovery Channel documentary that aired in October, as well as in four new books, three of them novels. Historian Steven Biel's Down with the Old Canoe argues against the notion that the Titanic's plummet marked the end of the age of innocence and of rigid class structure. "In my opinion," he writes, "the disaster changed nothing except shipping regulations...