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...There were some people who would teachwonderfully just being thrown in and others whohad trouble with a sink-or-swim approach," shesays...

Author: By Virginia A. Triant, | Title: How Well Does the Faculty Train TFs? | 3/2/1994 | See Source »

...order to avert these invidious consequences, the Administration would be tempted to further tamper with already mutable accounting procedures. If, on paper, there is no deficit, then the amendment is moot. Nebulous government statistics would become even more bewildering, and accountability would sink amid a morass of bogus technicalities. The amendment would only provoke the government's further abdication of the very budgetary responsibility it was designed to foster...

Author: By Benjamin J. Heller, | Title: Trendy Budget Games | 2/19/1994 | See Source »

...prominent woman literature professor at Harvard obtained her present position as a devout disciple of Deride and Paul de Man, an affiliation that changed only in the late Eighties when it was revealed that de man was a Nazi sympathizer. For this and other reasons, deconstruction began to sink...

Author: By Camille Paglia, | Title: An Open Letter to the Students of Harvard | 2/17/1994 | See Source »

Mark returned the completed forms and received in exchange a small, sterile cup. The smiling woman directed him to a little room, sparsely decorated with a chair, sink, mirror, television and selection of recent Playboy and Penthouse magazines. Mark disappeared behind the door and switched the label above the Knob from "vacant" to "occupied...

Author: By Stephen E. Frank, | Title: Dollars for Sperm | 2/17/1994 | See Source »

...Kool-Aid at the epicenter of America's most recent landscape of despair, the apartment he occupies with 27 relatives at 219 North Keystone Avenue on Chicago's run-down West Side. The dwelling is as the national headlines described it: drug deals transacted outside but not within; a sink swarming with roaches; a refrigerator filled with rotting and moldy food. An old-fashioned ice-cream crank perches incongruously on a shelf. At Melton's feet, mixed up in a pile of trash, dirt and other garbage, is some dried-up chopped beef...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Calcutta, Illinois | 2/14/1994 | See Source »

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