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Layzer's utilization of two section leaders is intended precisely to strengthen this notion of the classroom as a place of idea exchange, not lecture...

Author: By Philip M. Rubin, | Title: David Layzer: Teaching Science Through Prose or Poetry, But Not Equations | 2/9/1991 | See Source »

...clothing, speech, and movement of the characters. Rasminsky says that she "intentionally cast the same actresses. It's much more powerful to see the same people acting in completely different ways." The women of the second play are now free to encounter each other on their own terms, to strengthen and support one another...

Author: By David B. Lurie, | Title: Women's Theater Issues | 2/8/1991 | See Source »

...what is being said abroad," says a French official. "But frankly, we can't hope that what we do will cause Moscow to change its behavior." Moreover, some analysts advise that punishing Gorbachev for the blood spilled in Vilnius and Riga by withdrawing Western aid might undercut him and strengthen Soviet hard-liners. A U.S. official points out that almost all the aid Washington has pledged "will benefit the reformers and not the reactionaries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The West: No Cold War II | 2/4/1991 | See Source »

Harvard's Middle Eastern Studies contingent is seeking to establish a permanent faculty position for a modern Middle Eastern historian, trying to "strengthen the contemporary area strength the Center," says William A. Graham, director of the center...

Author: By Lan N. Nguyen, | Title: Middle Eastern Studies: Entering the Limelight | 1/31/1991 | See Source »

Toomey said the proposal would work to correct abuse by upper-income tenants and deterioration of housing units--two of rent control's biggest flaws. He said he constructed the plan to "preserve rent control and strengthen rent control...

Author: By Erica L. Werner, | Title: Council Split Over Housing Plan | 1/30/1991 | See Source »

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