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...Athletics is minimal--we are a student newspaper, not an institution possessing judicial checks and balances--so take the following with several grains of salt. But believe you this: The "journalistic" policy of ignoring failure and glorifying success encourages mediocrity at all levels. When a team is unwilling to probe itself for weaknesses, or discourages the formulation of an atmosphere in which constructive criticisms can be purposefully used, stasis will remain--and for "stasis," all too often insert "stagnation...
...sense, textbooks are not conducive to the classes that I teach because I like students to engage in the material themselves and probe the material for their own points of view," says Professor of the History of Science Everett I. Mendelsohn, who has been at Harvard since 1960. "A standardized textbook tends to predigest material...
...First Lady is under consideration. Deborah Gershman, a spokeswoman for Starr, said the prosecutor was en route to Arkansas and would likely comment after reviewing the letter further. Kendall's letter, which marks the first time he has publicly criticized Starr, comes as the prosecution has intensified the probe by filing court papers outlining "extensive evidence" of obstruction of justice. But if the material in the Times article constitutes violations of grand jury secrecy rules, Starr and his staff may be in for a taste of their own medicine...
...lawyers with a stake in the case, and seems resigned to sacrificing him in a final lunge at Espy. He may also be hoping to trip up Tyson with perjury charges, and he could still indict Tyson's company. Smaltz has indicated he will wrap up his probe by early summer...
Take the highly selective coverage of a Senate hearing last October at which Jack Blum--former chief investigator for Senator John Kerry's two-year-long Senate probe of charges that the CIA had been in cahoots with contra drug smugglers--appeared. Blum testified that while the Kerry committee found no evidence that the CIA had targeted black Americans for drug sales, its investigation had been stonewalled by William Weld, then an Assistant Attorney General and now the Governor of Massachusetts. Coming at the height of the furor over Webb's allegations--and in the middle of a tight Senate...