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...standard rule of thumb is to get thedepartments and deans to agree to a 20-to 25-yeardelay," says Ben Primer, who runs Princeton'sarchives. "Not everyone is willing to do that,however. Until the trustees establish some generalpolicies, I have to go with what the departmentheads want...
...Championship week" once again, and for those of you who have trouble discerning the MAAC from the MAC or the MVC, and Stetson from Rider or Pepperdine, here's a little primer on who's gonna get to play Purdue, Duke, Kansas and Kentucky in the first round of the NCAA Tourney...
...Philadelphia is just one panel, not the entire quilt," says John Gallagher, San Francisco correspondent for the Advocate, the nation's oldest gay magazine. "But as a primer for people who are new to the issue, it is pretty effective." Tony Kushner, author of the Pulitzer prize-winning play Angels in America, believes the film has strong lessons for the straight majority. "It tells them, If you are going to be a decent human being, you can't just casually despise a huge segment of the human race. And if you are going to address AIDS, you are going...
...deception used in recruitments and the exploitation that follows, for example, the extremely high "fees" for "courses" given by these groups. A book called Combating Cult Mind Control by Steve Hassan (himself a former member of a cult) is widely available in bookstores and is an excellent primer on the methods and dangers of destructive cults, including a checklist of what constitutes a cult (TM fits the category...
When a Wasp thought of his duty to the moral law, the guide he consulted was his own conscience. The conscience was a stern interior monitor. "In Adam's fall/ We sinned all," began the New England Primer. (They weren't big on self-esteem in the 18th century.) Conscience has the added advantage of being portable. Many cultures rely on peer pressure to enforce their rules and regulations. The Wasp with a conscience could feel guilty all by himself. Conscience also reinforced the work ethic: if you made good, you -- and everyone else -- knew that you were good...