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Advocate members are required to pay $25 or sell an advertisement or two subscriptions each semester. In late February, the executive board strictly enforced this policy which in previous years had been lax. If they fail to meet the requirements, members will have to redo the comp to retain membership...

Author: By Barbara E. Martinez, | Title: After Year of Money Woes, Advocate Reorganizes | 6/5/1997 | See Source »

...stands to reason that you won't retain the information because you haven't done the cognitive reasoning that requires," Ducey says...

Author: By Molly Hennessy-fiske, | Title: Reading Period--An Academic Time of Year | 6/5/1997 | See Source »

...course, easier to be the Emperor's conscience than to be the Emperor himself. Lee's challenge after the hand-over is to retain his moral authority yet not use it to provoke the very crackdown he decries. The challenge facing Tung is far tougher. He has the unenviable task of ruling with the mandate of a mistrusted regime and without the popular mandate of the people. He must ensure that Hong Kong will enjoy the "high degree of autonomy" China promised. And he must prove to Beijing that Hong Kong will not become a dangerous base for subversion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HONG KONG FACE-OFF | 6/2/1997 | See Source »

...seems determined to retain the iron cage of the Core program despite students inside clamoring to get out, wanting to learn more than the Core teaches them. It seems ironic to us that the Faculty's decisions are rooted not in a pedagogic desire to inculcate students with a solid liberal arts education but rather in a perverse need to maintain a failed system for the sake of the system itself. Beside increasing student choice, departmental bypasses will allow increased learning. The Faculty should be more concerned with student education and less concerned with bureaucracy...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Time To Reform the Core | 5/19/1997 | See Source »

...longer aimed at targets in the U.S. It is true that both sides agreed in 1994 to switch the missiles away from their cold war assignments, but it isn't true that this step moved the world a safe distance back from Armageddon. The missiles' computer memories retain those targets, and they can be restored very quickly. "It is just a matter of a couple of minutes," says a Defense Ministry official in Moscow. And if a missile is launched without a selected target--even if by accident--it reverts to the original...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NUCLEAR DISARRAY | 5/19/1997 | See Source »

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