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...greatest paradox of academic work in modern America is that most professors teach most of the time, and large proportions of them teach all the time, but teaching is not the activity most rewarded by the academic profession nor most valued by the system at large," the report states. "Trustees and administrators in one sector after another praise teaching and reward research...

Author: By Andrew J. Bates, | Title: Carnegie Study: Colleges Do Not Stress Teaching | 11/6/1987 | See Source »

...book by an editor of the Washington Post dealing with the subject of the Central Intelligence Agency. Hint: Bob Woodward's much ballyhooed Veil, an expose by the renowned Watergate reporter of the deeds and alleged confessions of the late director William J. Casey, does not count. Reward: those who come up with the correct answer can settle down to read an uncommonly informative and intriguing espionage thriller...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Enchanted City AGENTS OF INNOCENCE | 11/2/1987 | See Source »

...trying to lay something on them," Tom says, as the truck pulls away. "I prefer the backdoor approach. The paintings are meant to say, "Welcome, Welcome." Your enjoyment is my reward. It's something as mundane and stupid as all that...

Author: By David J. Barron, | Title: A Friendly Artist Makes Cambridge His Galllery | 10/21/1987 | See Source »

...work for nothing. Secure in their anticipation of future employment, they hasten to fritter away their summers in such congenial and prestigious surroundings. Such indeed is their enthusiasm for the Mother of Parliaments that many are willing not only to work eight hours a day without the slightest monetary reward but also to pay for the privilege of doing so through various exorbitant programs...

Author: By Ellen J. Harvey, | Title: The Sun Also Sets | 10/8/1987 | See Source »

...recalls, "but you'd hardly notice because he'd be so funny and ramble around so much." Russell encouraged the yarns of his precocious eldest grandson. At the end of a session, he would fish around in a sock full of change that was tied to his belt and reward him with the then princely sum of 25 cents. Already Cosby was learning that comedy could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: I Do Believe in Control | 9/28/1987 | See Source »

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