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...result of the crowding phenomenon is a dedication of Reading Period to paperwork and Exam Period to reading. This chronology defeats the purpose of the academic structure, in which Reading Period is a time to review and synthesize a semester's work, and Exam Period is for more directed study. Reading Period, then, is neither restful (as it was originally intended to be so that graduate students and professors had time to complete their own work) nor productive (as it might be constructed with a new focus on the importance of undergraduate learning...
...when John Murphy, 61, and Suzanne Murphy, 59, ran much faster than they had in the past. Studying the tapes, race officials found that while the couple did register at three computer checkpoints along the course, they did not show on videos shot at secret locations. "Following an intensive review of our surveillance videotapes, the two individuals have been disqualified from the race and their names will be removed from the results," said Guy Morse, the race director. The new winners? Anthony Cerminaro, 60, of Jermyn, Pa., and Susan Gustafson, 50, of Norwell, Ma. And they?ve got the blisters...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Defense Secretary William Cohen?s Quadrennial Defense Review seems sure to result in cuts on the human side of the ledger in order to keep the Pentagon on the leading edge of military technology, reports TIME?s Mark Thompson. "The Pentagon consensus seems to be that despite the protestations of the Army, a 495,000 active-duty force is simply more than we need. The cuts won't reach as high as the 10 percent being thrown around now, but 20,000 troops could go rather easily." And with troop reductions in recent years far outstripping cuts...
...Your review of cultural historian Garry Wills' John Wayne's America [BOOKS, April 7] and the story on Heaven's Gate converged to give us a double-barreled glimpse of our national uneasiness. The cultists' pitiful yearning for spiritual safety in a topsy-turvy world and the Wayne admirers' desire for a presumably safer, vanished world are simply different reactions to the fact that we're living in a dying culture...
DIED. L. BRENT BOZELL, 71, a fixture of conservative thought and activism; of pneumonia; in Bethesda, Maryland. Founder of the Catholic journal Triumph, he wrote for the National Review, co-authored a book sympathetic to Joseph McCarthy with brother-in-law William Buckley and helped write speeches for Barry Goldwater...