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Jennifer Lawson, public TV's first programming czar, wants to appeal to more than just the "Chardonnay and Brie crowd." But first she will have to tame the unruly PBS bureaucracy...
...There's nothing on at all, it's actually rather tame. You'll find students in their rooms or on floor lounges," said Matthew J. McSorley, news editor of the B.U. Daily Free Press. "People are more keeping it to themselves...
...Center for Earthquake Research and Information at Memphis State University. Fortunately, when the earthquakes of 1811 and 1812 occurred, the New Madrid region was too sparsely populated to suffer significant damage or injuries. A modern-day replay, however, would make the quake that shook San Francisco last year seem tame. That tremor measured 7.1 on the Richter scale. In contrast, the big quakes that rumbled forth from New Madrid may have exceeded 8.0, or about 10 times that strong...
...fault we lost," shot one campaigner. Others were less tame in their comments, smearing the politicians on screen with expletives and harshly personal comments...
...review of Social Analysis 10 was tame, favorable except for passing criticisms of Marty Feldstein's politics, of the pace of the course, and of the lack of coordination among the Eastern Europe lecturers (a nicely done box, by the way). The write-up on the department as a whole is without meat, making only a few points of which only two are critical--that Economics 1125 has not worked in the past and that the department allows you to take larger and/or easier courses and does not force you to take the smaller and more difficult ones...