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This fall, reading period was four days--or 28.5 percent--shorter than usual. When grade reports are sent out today, no note will be made of this condensed preparation time. Harvard naively pretends that the length of reading period is just not that important. Unfortunately, four days do make a difference: every day taken away means less time spent on important papers, fewer pages read, and less material learned...
...session was for her or her daughter, Mom reportedly said, "We'll each take half." Meanwhile, out on the slopes, Olympic Gymnast and Advertising Omnipresence Mary Lou Retton (4 ft. 9 in.) derived a different satisfaction from the diminutive Westheimer. Said Retton: "I finally found somebody two inches shorter than me." Dr. Ruth was soon seen in the lodge asking for a ski instructor, preferably one 6 ft. 3 in. tall...
...young Frenchman with an especially rich tone, adopts a more reflective attitude, which gives the sonata dramatic coherence. He treats the work as a full-scale tone poem rather than a prolonged etude, savoring each section. The fireworks are going to come, he suggests, so why rush them? The shorter pieces get similarly thoughtful, impressive readings...
Last week NWA Inc., the parent company of Northwest Orient Airlines, agreed to buy Republic Airlines for $884 million. The combination of the two carriers, both based in Minneapolis, is a good fit. Primarily a long-haul operator, Northwest would benefit from adding Republic's shorter Midwestern and Southeastern routes. If approved by the companies' shareholders and the Department of Justice, the deal would create the fifth-largest U.S. airline in terms of passengers, behind United, Eastern, Delta and American...
...leisurely 2 hr. 26 min.; Universal's only other Christmas release, Out of Africa, runs 2 hr. 34 min.) When Gilliam delivered a streamlined cut that was still six minutes over the limit, Sheinberg determined to withhold the film until Universal minions could prepare their own version: shorter, more "accessible," and with a more "satisfying" ending, which the director believed would fatally distort his film. By this time Gilliam was seeing life imitating Brazil. Like Sam, he was being compromised by a "ruthlessly legal" cadre of apparatchiks. "If I go into Universal and even mention the word art," he said...