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...Student Rights Committee will also set up a legal aid bureau and a grievance committee to help students going before the Administrative Board for possible disciplinary action, Bernstein added...
...brother. Besides the fact that the music and vocals give a more accurate measure of his talent, Hancock usually doesn't write his lyrics anyway. The most flagrant example of horrid lyrics comes through all too plainly in "Tell Everybody." "Honey from the Air" shows how a meaningless set of words can still reflect, with the help of solid backup vocals, hard work and good intentions. "Honey" 's pliant use of instruments stretches the sound beyond the poor lyrics...
...When we say strategic misrepresentation, we're not talking about a person who, when trying to sell a used car, will set back the odometer," Raiffa wrote in this month's Harvard Business School Bulletin. "That sort of scurrilous behavior would not be condoned by me or by any of my students. We are talking about the grayer area where the seller of the car would be willing to sell at $500 but says he would not be willing to take a cent less than...
Juvenile justice in this country is one of those subjects that everyone's got an opinion on, but few have hard facts. When you see unruly and disobedient teenagers nightly terrorize elderly women in the South Bronx on your television set, you naturally feel that they all belong behind bars, with the keys thrown away. Yet almost half of the girls (and an almost as large percentage of the boys) currently in child detention facilities are serving time for crimes no more serious than truancy or running away from home. The bureaucrats in Washington call such juveniles "status offenders...
...quality. An inept rip-off of Saturday Night Fever, Flatbush deals with the childish and unfunny activities of several New York teenagers portrayed by actors, who are, without exception, headed for other careers. They pretend they are in Brooklyn while they are, in fact, cavorting on a miserably constructed set in Los Angeles. A mindless and seemingly endless chase scene concluded this monstrosity, which, incidentally, received the perfectly respectable rating of 15.6 and 23 per cent of the audience...