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...strictly optional, despite the fact that lectures are taped. In a past career, Ray Erickson perhaps defused hostage situations or drug addicts’ highs—at the very least, he once put a BS54 student on No-Doz to sleep. Picture a biology professor version of Ben Stein in “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” and multiply by ten. Just make sure you don't snore (another real-life occurrence). Don’t bother even buying the textbook; you only really need to read the pages on the exam outline, which...
...Next: Michael Stein...
...Stein, now 49, was a lieutenant in the Fire Department of New York, sent to Ground Zero on Sept. 11. He was promoted to captain that November, but has since retired because of lung problems suffered on 9/11...
...phony, and the state is overrun with wacky spiritual advisers? There's something unfocused and Californian about I Feel Earthquakes, which made me keep referring to the front flap to be reminded of what, exactly, the book is supposed to be about. It's pleasant enough, but as Gertrude Stein said of her hometown (it was Oakland, Calif.), "There's no there there...
...Foundation (YAF), a Herndon, Va., organization, founded in 1969, that sponsored 200 conservative lectures across the country last year (in addition to the National Conservative Student Conference). At many schools, those speeches have become the biggest events of the semester. Last year at Duke, for instance, YAF speaker Ben Stein, an ex--Nixon aide and former Comedy Central host, attracted 1,500 people, 200 of whom had to be turned away--a bigger crowd than the one that had come to hear Maya Angelou two months earlier. With its $13 million annual budget, the foundation--run by a former Reagan...