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Rigid departmental requirements are one of the main reasons why students turn towards University Hall, students and officials say. The Special Concentrations Department tries to smooth the path for some students by formally asking other departments to ease their requirements, Herschbach says. But she adds, "Some departments will simply not be flexible...

Author: By Anne F. Palmer, | Title: The Road Less Traveled By | 3/2/1988 | See Source »

Bush and Dole have reached the very pinnacle of Republican politics by vastly different paths. Bush's road was smooth and privileged, Dole's unrelentingly difficult. While Bush was being chauffeured to Greenwich Country Day School and going off to Andover and Yale, Dole was walking to the public schools of Russell, Kans., and working his way through the University of Kansas at Lawrence and Washburn University of Topeka. As Bush went to prove his manhood in a West Texas oil field with a family stake of $500,000, Dole was serving as county attorney of Russell, where an unhappy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Same Substance, Different Style | 2/29/1988 | See Source »

...discusses the problems that a woman of the 1980's faces. She describes how difficult it is to get a date. "I haven't been dating a lot. Is it me, my personality or the threat of nuclear war?" Snow says. Snow's delivery of this joke in a smooth, sexy voice just adds to the already clearly hilarious material...

Author: By Melanie R. Williams, | Title: Snow Makes Sailors Come Ashore | 2/19/1988 | See Source »

...three Harvard students and a pair of graduates, the road to Calgary has been smooth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Next Stop: Calgary for Harvard's Best | 2/11/1988 | See Source »

...Socialist Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez insisted that the withdrawal was necessary to comply with a promise to reduce the U.S. military presence in Spain in return for passage of a 1986 referendum endorsing the country's continued membership in NATO. Agreement on the F-16 issue should also smooth the way for a new treaty that will allow continued U.S. access to other bases on Spanish soil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spain: Up, Up And Away | 1/25/1988 | See Source »

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