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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Rather than catering to the needs of individual students, Expos sections, or at least mine, seem to prefer to evaluate students according to prefabricated patterns. I went through that pattern, and I still feel that my final paper--which received a significantly higher grade that the first--is interior. As a result, I passed through the course without having any concrete idea of what good writing ought to be like...

Author: By Patrick J. Long, | Title: Writing at Harvard: The Source of the Problem | 11/2/1987 | See Source »

...move that blindsided the White House, Gorbachev declared that the pending agreement on intermediate-range nuclear forces (INF) was not, by itself, enough reason to justify a Washington summit. Unless the U.S. was willing to talk about ways to limit Reagan's cherished Strategic Defense Initiative program, he would prefer to pass up Thanksgiving at the ranch. Barely a year after he had done much the same in Reykjavik, Gorbachev pulled off a bait-and-switch scheme at Reagan's expense, luring him into high- level, high-visibility diplomacy only to shock and infuriate the Administration at the last minute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Snuffing A Summit | 11/2/1987 | See Source »

Sources familiar with a meeting this week between Justice Department officials and conservative groups said some higher-ups in the department prefer U.S. Circuit Judge Douglas H. Ginsburg, of Washington, D.C., over Kennedy. But Kennedy also reportedly would be backed by department officials...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: White House Considers Court Prospects | 10/29/1987 | See Source »

...have always preferred hot chocolate. Hot chocolate is warm and filling. It is a symbol, of winter days and sledding in the back yard with my older brother. Quite simply, hot chocolate is my youth, condensed and poured into one little styrofoam cup. Of course I prefer hot chocolate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Coffee Is A State Of Mind | 10/23/1987 | See Source »

...trying to lay something on them," Tom says, as the truck pulls away. "I prefer the backdoor approach. The paintings are meant to say, "Welcome, Welcome." Your enjoyment is my reward. It's something as mundane and stupid as all that...

Author: By David J. Barron, | Title: A Friendly Artist Makes Cambridge His Galllery | 10/21/1987 | See Source »

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