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...professors would indirectly recruit students to their fields of study. Their enthusiasm for their lives' work would inevitably rub off on students. Such passion is not always communicated from the podium...

Author: By Mark N. Templeton, | Title: A Very Modest Proposal | 2/26/1991 | See Source »

...solution, the more egalitarian one, is more oriented toward free markets. But don't expect conservatives to take up this rallying cry. Some of them would rather admit a ration of minorities into their cozy establishments than see those establishments truly shaken up. Others, like Jesse Helms, would rather rub racial wounds raw than promote their own alleged principles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: What's Really Fair | 11/19/1990 | See Source »

Students are not permitted to claim they belong to an organization unless they are recognized by the administration--and there's the rub. To be recognized, a student club must have two faculty sponsors (at least one of which must be a tenured professor), at least 10 members, a constitution and financial reports. Only then will the Committee on College Life consider the petition. Until organized, a group is not allowed to hold meetings on campus, have speakers, or publish materials for the student population...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: College Policy Impinges Rights | 10/27/1990 | See Source »

...Washington, that is the rub. George Bush, Baker and their advisers at the White House and State Department are still convinced that NATO is the most effective channel for American influence in Europe. They have resisted the European push for a stronger CSCE because they viewed it as a threat to NATO. But now that worry is fading. American policy makers are increasingly , confident that NATO will be needed and welcomed in Europe as long as the Soviet Union's future is so unsettled. In the meantime, says a senior official in Washington, the development of CSCE institutions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diplomacy Ode to a New Day | 10/15/1990 | See Source »

Chemistry. Be a Minoxidil man. Rub chemicals into your scalp and pray for growth. Put your right foot in, take your right foot out, do the hokey-pokey and turn yourself about. Open your mind to science and your wallet, too--at $52 for a month's worth at CVS, Minoxidil may let you keep your hair and nothing else...

Author: By Kenneth A. Katz, | Title: Hair Today. . . | 10/13/1990 | See Source »

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