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WASHINGTON: The price of knowing your enemy has seldom been cheaper. In the military bargain of the century, the Pentagon purchased 21 top-of-the-line MIG-29C fighters from the former Soviet republic of Moldova for a totally crazy $40 million. But what exactly does the U.S. military plan to do with the planes it bought, ostensibly to prevent them being sold to Iran...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIGs at a Crazy Price | 11/5/1997 | See Source »

...that these men and women have dedicated their lives to scholastic study indicates the passion they have for their discipline. Like all humans, they want to share their passion with others; they want to give it to others. Students are the likeliest recipients of this desire, but we seldom receive...

Author: By Thomas B. Cotton, | Title: No Reason to Complain | 10/31/1997 | See Source »

However, Simon notes that it is only seldom that professors who wind up getting tenured commit acts deserving dismissal. This sentiment is widespread among Faculty and administrators...

Author: By Caroline T. Nguyen, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Losing Tenure: Rare, But Not Impossible | 10/30/1997 | See Source »

...with which she later treats her perception of McCarthyism and the problems of adolescence. Bereft of landmarks that indicate change in maturity and voice, one never knows exactly how old Goodwin is at a given moment. On the other hand, growing up is indeed an invisible process--one is seldom conscious of growing older. Thus, the book's greatest problem is also that which lends it the most credibility...

Author: By Jamie L. Jones, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Trip Down Memory Lane: The Childhood of a '50s Dodgers Fan | 10/24/1997 | See Source »

...America, self-published manuscripts and their "controversial" results are often overdramatized in advertising; the novel itself, to an American who has ostensibly seen and heard everything, seldom can live up to the adjectives hyping its publication...

Author: By Erika L. Guckenberger, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Gods, Slaves and Sex: Controversy Surrounding 'Bondmaid' Not a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy | 10/24/1997 | See Source »

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