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...legions of fans who just can't seem to get enough of the shellbacks and their escapades. Their syndicated cartoon series, which debuted two years ago, appears daily on 130 TV stations and is the No. 3 animated show for children. Meanwhile, three videotapes based on the show rank among the Top Ten videos for children. Kids are, literally, so eager to get their hands on the Turtles that Playmates Toys Inc.'s action figures of the heroes were the third biggest-selling toy last Christmas (after Barbie and Nintendo). All told, some 300 Turtle merchandising spin-offs ranging from...
...wonder so many students waited until this semester to fulfill this requirement--making Moral Reasonings 30 and 38 rank seventh and eighth, respectively, with a combined total of 695 students. So much for Assistant Professor of Philosophy Frederick Neuhouser's theory that students flocked to Moral Reasoning 38 because it covered "important texts that don't get done at Harvard very often--Marx, Nietzsche, Feuerbach...
History is filled with ironies large and small, but Modrow's present circumstances deserve more than a footnote in Eastern Europe's chronicle of change. In another age (say a year ago), Modrow would have been hailed as a Communist reformer of the first rank. As party leader in Dresden from 1973 to 1989, Modrow was no favorite of Erich Honecker's and his now discredited Politburo. Last June economist Gunter Hager sent a commission of 100 party hacks to snoop into the Dresden operation in hopes of finding a reason to drive Modrow out of the Central Committee. What...
...first time ever, first-year students this year will be randomly assigned to one of four unranked house choices. The new non-ordered choice-system is a marked change from the old lottery system, which allowed students to rank their top three choices...
...Hockey East has had a very successful season as four of its teams rank in the nation's top 15. Boston College, Maine, Boston University, and Providence all hope good efforts in the league playoffs will secure a bid to the NCAA Tournament...