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...disappointed, too, that the more important of my criticisms was not passed along by Meneely. If the Core program is flawed, the students, themselves must be willing to shoulder some of the blame: by insisting on a "star system," on taking classes with the luminaries in the field, they guarantee that those classes will be huge and impersonal. Perhaps what is needed is two-tiered system in which students can satisfy their distribution requirements either through the Core, or in the departments themselves (where, ideally, class size would be much smaller). Either way, nothing will change unless the students themselves...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Series on Core Program Falls Short | 4/28/1994 | See Source »

...There's a chip on his shoulder these days that, when he digs deeper than Bobbitt-Harding-Menendez for material, puts an unpleasant defensive spin on the observations. We laugh, sure, and marvel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: They All Laughed -- Not | 4/25/1994 | See Source »

...Crimson haven't been the same on the face-off since Pat McCulloch went down with a shoulder injury, Ames said...

Author: By Matt Howitt, | Title: M. Lacrosse Rallies Only to Lose, 18-17 | 4/22/1994 | See Source »

...have been getting away with murder. Last week the 47-year-old Berkshire, New York, housewife sat in court charged with suffocating all five of her children. Authorities accuse her of smothering three with pillows, one with a bath towel and another by pressing its face against her shoulder (the specifics are based on a confession that Hoyt has now recanted). Says District Attorney William Fitzpatrick of Onondaga, New York, who initiated the investigation of Hoyt: "We have brought to justice a killer who preyed on her own children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Is Crib Death a Cover for Murder? | 4/11/1994 | See Source »

...Super-Uplift that force a woman's breasts, however small, into a harness, creating cleavage of the sort enjoyed by Dolly Parton. The maker of Super-Uplift describes its product as a feat of engineering (constructed with 46 separate components and underwires, a "gate back" for anchoring, and ridged shoulder straps to prevent the "embarrassing jellies-on-a-plate look"), but it is actually a feat of marketing. Reconvincing women that the absence of breasts holds them back is as easy as forcing hemlines up or down: it is only a few fashion shows, press releases and glossy- magazine features...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Public Eye: Less Than Uplifting | 4/4/1994 | See Source »

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