Word: result
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...common complaint heard in house dining halls, library carrels and expert evaluations of Harvard concerns the virtual absence of contact between faculty and students, often a result of large, impersonal lecture courses...
...aborted attempt to take a stand in Lisa Schkolnick's suit against the Fly Club. The Council agreed to give Schkolnick $250, but at the same time it refused to endorse her suit. More recently, it rejected a weaker resolution which urged the clubs to admit women. As a result of its studied ambivalence, the Council can count on being on the winning side of the final club dispute--no matter which side wins...
ARIA. Assign ten directors to work daft magic on ten of opera's greatest hits, and the result is this beguiling pastiche of long-haired "videos." Ken Russell wins top prize for his Turandotty dream sequence...
...contest between "techies" and "fuzzies" has been lopsidedly dominated by the former. "The reality now is that it's much more like Stanford Tech than a college," says Stanford Grad Mary Munter, a professor at Dartmouth's Tuck School. "There's far less interest in the humanities." As a result, the liberal arts are the one area where Stanford clearly lags behind its Eastern rivals...
Francois Mitterrand won a second seven-year term as France's President on Sunday, with 54% of the vote against Premier Jacques Chirac's 46%. The result was hardly startling after Mitterrand's strong showing in the first round of balloting on April 24, though the release of three French hostages in Lebanon last Wednesday seemed briefly to boost Chirac's chances. Chirac failed to capture enough supporters of Jean-Marie Le Pen, the ultra-rightist candidate, who fared surprisingly well in the initial round. On the eve of his triumph, Mitterrand, 71, outlined his plans for the second term...