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...Department is afraid of unevenly taxing its faculty as student interest fluctuates from year to year. As students have of late gravitated en masse towards American government, for example, faculty specialists in this field have had their hands full. Obviously, faculty hiring could never keep pace with random shifts in student interest. But if the department finds a particular subfield oversubscribed one year, excising the 25 or so lowest-ranked students--only a handful of whose theses would be in the oversubscribed field--is cruel and unusual punishment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Unnecessarily Exclusive | 4/23/1990 | See Source »

...PLACES YOU'LL GO! by Dr. Seuss (Random House; $12.95). Eighty-six- year-old Dr. Seuss continues to rhyme with reason in book No. 43, an illustrated philosophy lesson about bouncing back that contains the sage advice, "Be sure when you step./ Step with care and great tact/ and remember that Life's/ a Great Balancing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: Apr. 16, 1990 | 4/16/1990 | See Source »

HENRY: PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER. Running into Henry is like winning a satanic lottery; you die, at random. John McNaughton's icy essay in depravity, made for peanuts in Chicago four years ago, forces the moviegoer to stare into the face of evil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: Apr. 16, 1990 | 4/16/1990 | See Source »

...PLACES YOU'LL GO! by Dr. Seuss; Random House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Great Balancing Act | 4/9/1990 | See Source »

...Union decides to keep replenishing the Towers of Cups to keep up with our demand, let us love our Mother for just one day. On April 22, bring your EAC mugs, your random plastic cups gathering dust in your dorm rooms, your idle FOP canteens. On this one day, refuse to use wasteful paper cups and show Harvard that we care about our environment...

Author: By Steven V. Mazie, | Title: Our Cups Runneth Over | 4/7/1990 | See Source »

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