Word: reviews
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from consigning Mr. Reagan to ruin, therefore, the report of the special review board ensures his continued viability. That the panel found no proof of criminal complicity, indeed, nothing worse to say about the president than the obvious, bodes well for America's favorite lame duck...
...bankers without giving them a solid grounding in old-fashioned ethical values. By pushing salaries and bonuses to outlandish heights, investment firms have turned money into the ultimate measure of success. Declares Felix Rohatyn, senior partner of the investment firm Lazard Freres, in an essay for the New York Review of Books: "Too much money is coming together with too many young people who have little or no institutional memory, or sense of tradition, and who are under enormous pressure to perform in the glare of Hollywood-like publicity...
Eisert is more or less right, of course. But he has the facts of the disciplinary review all wrong. The proposed disciplinary reform would create a body of students and faculty who would hear unusual disciplinary cases, presumably including some of those stemming from political protests...
...Faculty and administration value student input--or at least the appearance of student input--a great deal. Student dissatisfaction with the CRR led to the current review despite the wide confidence the body enjoys among faculty and administrators. Without student support for a new disciplinary body, it would become--like the CRR--a focus for student protest and a headache for the administration...
...Hitlernostalgie," as German newspapers have named it, is evident throughout the country. Historians, politicians and average citizens believe it time to review Hitler's contribution to their culture, and many seem to suspect the contribution was a positive...