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...Cliffs is marketing the ultimate shortcut for harried students: 45-min. audio cassettes billed as "companions" to twelve such standard assignments as Wuthering Heights and the Odyssey. The tapes incorporate dramatizations of key scenes and brief lectures on their meaning...
Reporters labor hard to find perfect anecdotes and quotes to drive home the points they want their stories to make. At times they may even be tempted to take a shortcut and sweeten material by merging people into composite characters, placing them in colorful circumstances or concocting pithy remarks. But such fabrications, however faithful they may seem to the spirit of a reporter's observations, are violations of the ethics of the craft. Thus, when New Yorker Writer Alastair Reid, 58, admitted last week that he had indulged repeatedly in such sleight of hand, he prompted a well-deserved...
...Harvard students because of all the walking and biking needed to reach everything important in our lives. Nearly every Radcliffe student had at least one really long trip in her schedule every term. As a result, we carried a sense of street danger. At night the Common, a convenient shortcut, was unsafe, and the very dark side streets had deservedly poor reputations. I remember carrying my cello home alone from a Mem Hall rehearsal because there were no other Radcliffe players going home at that time. I really wondered if I would make it safely to the protected zone...
...through the old State, War and Navy Building (now the Executive Office Building), climb the steps beside the West Wing of the White House, where the President worked, trudge on by the front of the mansion and under the North Portico and out the northeast gate. Nice shortcut through pleasant surroundings. Anybody could...
...Pentagon's inventory. For instance, the Navy paid the Sperry Corp. $110 for each diode used in an F/A-18 fighter-bomber flight simulator, even though the diodes were available from the Pentagon's own spare-parts stockpile at 4? each. The apparent reason for this expensive shortcut: unwillingness to order through the cumbersome military bureaucracy. Declared Democratic Congressman Nicholas Mavroules of Massachusetts: "This is an abominable situation...