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Should you wander from the straight and narrow path in the academic realm, the Handbook has plenty of provisions for steering you back toward propriety. Heavily over committed to various athletic and social diversions, let's say, you decided to lift an article from Sports Illustrated for an essay due the next day. (True story; Boy Scouts' honor.) The only problem is that the issue is from that week, and your section leader has just finished it himself. Hello, Ad Board; hello, page 38: "In preparation of all papers and other work submitted to most course requirements, students should...
...distanced himself, for example, from the Administrations midyear budget review, which will be published this week. It predicts that the economy with grow at an annual rate of more than 4.5% during the second half of 1982, and another 4.5% next year. Said Weidenbaum: "That projection is within the realm of possibility. But my personal forecast would be more on the cautious side...
King Henry (Patrick Stewart) fears the reverse, that his scapegrace son has been corrupted by dissolute companions. He is depressed by the thought that when Hal ascends the throne, the realm will dissolve in chaos. Chaos abounds as it is. Scotland and Wales are in rebellion, and the noble families who helped Henry to overthrow Richard II are now conspiring to overthrow him. Paradoxically, the King admires one of those conspirators, Harry Percy (Timothy Dalton), known as Hotspur. He so cherishes Hotspur's valor that he wishes...
There are two movies in Firefox. The first is earthbound, the kind of well-made but not very venturesome adventure picture that almost four decades of cold war have made all too familiar. The second, however, is airborne, an extravagant flight into the realm of special visual effects. For the film's producer-director-star, Clint Eastwood, it represents an attempt to arrange a shrewd encounter of a new kind, with the young audience that likes things that go whoosh in the night...
...came to office without a lot of practical foreign policy experience. After 16 months at the helm, has your view of the world changed in any way and has anything in this realm surprised you in one way or another...