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Some say this commitment to thoroughness will insure the council's survival; the fact that administrators avidly read the free speech report is proof that they respect the council's judgement enough to listen to its recommendations on future issues. However, some say this same thoroughness may ultimtely alienate the council's undergraduate constituents, who are getting the impression that the council acts too slowly or that it is bogged down it bureaucracy...
Rosovsky is also confident that larger courses are not a problem because students like them. "In general," he writes, "large courses are thought to be as rewarding as small courses." The proof is students evaluations through surveys like CUE and, he argues, the numbers themselves. "Students vote with their feet in flocking to the classrooms of our most distinguished scholars...
...election, and that a U.S. embassy official had served improperly as a consultant to the country's Central Election Commission. ARENA'S official scrutineer was finally ejected by the election commission for repeatedly interrupting the vote-counting process. D'Aubuisson also claimed, without offering proof, that the U.S. had "fixed" the election, and declared that "we are not going to validate this puppet, Mr. Duarte, who they say has been bought by the CIA so it can maintain its interests." At week's end ARENA declared that it would refuse to recognize the election results. Meanwhile...
...study by British Freelance Writer Mark Bryant. "It may come as some surprise to those who have only encountered riddles in the guise of jokes," he notes defensively, "that this skittish footnote to the austere chronicles of our folk-culture heritage has itself an ancient and learned history." As proof, he ventures back to Babylonia to unearth an early example: "Who becomes pregnant without conceiving? Who becomes fat without eating?" Answer: Clouds. In ancient Greece, Oedipus solves the riddle of the Sphinx: "What is it that goes on four legs in the morning, two legs at noon and three legs...
...books and Sunday supplements, a situation that leads the disgruntled anthologist to pose a question of his own: "Is riddling something only relevant to cultures at the so-called 'mythological' stage of thought or has all the fun gone out of the Western world?" Answer: No. For proof, see Riddles Ancient and Modern, an engaging festival of some 700 posers, ranging from Homer ("What we caught we threw away; what we didn't catch we kept") to Jean Jacques Rousseau ("The truer I am, the more false I appear, and I become too young as age creeps...