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...racquetmen meet MIT at Hemenway Gym on Tuesday afternoon, but the team has relatively smooth sailing until it meets up with Princeton on February 25. Since upcoming matches should pose little challenge, the players will be entering individual outside tournaments to sharpen up their games...
...school students by invoking the legal doctrine of in loco parentis. In loco parentis is that nifty doctrine that lets school officials act as your own parents by, say, letting House Masters serve alcohol in the sherry hour, as your own parents presumably do in their own home. Administrators sharpen the double edge of this legal sword by claiming that acting in loco parentis--"in the place of your parents"--they can search students persons and lockers without constitutionally required warrants or probable cause...
...clashes between Mondale and Glenn laid bare four months before the primary season the deep-seated ideological differences between the two Democratic front runners. In large part, the showdown resulted because Glenn has been striving to sharpen his ill-defined image in the minds of Democratic voters. He is known mostly as an astronaut, an image that will be burnished this month with the release of the movie The Right Stuff, based on Tom Wolfe's bestselling book about the space program. To capitalize on the film's heroic depiction of Glenn as a young man, his aides...
...teacher-development program. With the help of his faculty, Superintendent Jay Robinson is now working out a career plan that would identify 26 qualities an instructor should exhibit. Teachers would receive extensive training through a center that already houses a library of curriculum materials and sets up workshops to sharpen skills. Favorable evaluations would lead to pay bonuses as teachers advanced up a three-step career ladder to tenured status. Says Robinson: "Merit-pay plans attempt to identify excellence and reward it. Our plan's emphasis is on creating great teachers through training them and then putting them...
...many Britishers can be described as analogous to the feeling one gets when successfuly completing a grueling five hour exam the pain is worth the glory. Even those who are not Conservative sympathizers have taken Thatcher's "no free lunch" economics to heart and are he ginning to sharpen their knives for the dinner feast they hope will follow...