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...them determine the best survival strategies in terms of both means and ends. "What hurdles must one jump?" "Is it enough barely to clear the hurdle?" and "Does the style or form matter?" The strategies chosen by students express their individual approaches to competition. For some students, self-imposed strict rules must be followed to achieve high grades. For others, peer relations have a special role and power in academic performance, for they help to determine the socially acceptable choice and what price would be exacted in the face of peer pressure or a reward given in peer support...
...violate one of the Blocking Commandments is simply bad form. Unfortunately, strict adherence to these rules eliminates an easy escape from awkward blocking situations...
With rare exception-such as under the strict terms of obscenity-speech does not need to be proven "worthy" to be protected. Only people with delusions of godhood think that they can determine what products magnanimously will be offered in the "market-place of ideas...
...Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls (Ballantine; $12.50), has the combination just right. Dozens of troubled teenage girls troop across its pages: composite sketches of Charlottes, Whitneys and Danielles who were raped, who have bulimia, who have pierced bodies or shaved heads, who are coping with strict religious families or are felled by their parents' bitter divorce. There's a girl here for everyone: either the girl the reader once was or the sullen one now lolling about the reader's house listening to Hole. "The book put a name and a face on something I was already...
COMING FROM JACK QUINN, THE NEW White House counsel, the internal memo sent around last month was odd for being so elementary. It ordered staff members to give their "full and prompt attention" to document requests from investigators probing the Whitewater affair. "Nothing less will do," wrote Quinn, urging strict compliance. "Two years too late," commented a White House aide...