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...replace these workers. A complex agreement was reached between the University and the unions representing the workers, an agreement which reserved the lion's share of termination pay and job placement assistance to (you guessed it) workers with twenty years or more on the job. It is a textbook case of a big white institution and white-dominated unions agreeing to give preference to seniority privileges over hard-won affirmative action protections...
Harvard had almost all the serious chances to score in the third period. After failing to convert on an early power play, the Crimson produced the game's third tie when right wing Peter Follows worked a textbook give-and-go with left wing Jay North, passing to North on the left side, breaking up the middle, taking the return pass and heating Draper from close range. Wheeler almost scored on a similar play with four minutes left in regulation, but put his shot over the net, so that he could score the game winner in more dramatic fashion...
Unfortunately, Walter LaFeber's Inevitable Revolutions does little to relieve this sense of anguish. Barraging the reader with too many unimportant names and dates, the book describes two centuries of U.S. involvement in Central America with the depth of a high school textbook. Although LaFeber outlines and criticizes the major currents behind U.S. policy he offers no escape from the not-so-merry-go-round in Central America at a time when alternatives are needed most...
...their confessions are even partially true, Lucas and Toole could be textbook examples of a new breed of killer: the serial murderer, whose victims are numerous and whose crimes are geographically far-flung and committed over a period of many years. The Federal Bureau of Investigation believes that serial murderers are behind some 35 death sprees currently under investigation. Alfred Regnery, administrator of the federal Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, estimates that of the 21,000 murders committed in the U.S. last year, several thousand can be attributed to this kind of psychopath. "The serial murderer doesn...
...Portnoy's Complaint belong on the shelf with Rabelais and Swift. Woody Allen's The Kugelmass Episode stands as a classic. In it, a professor of humanities is propelled backward in time to the arms of Madame Bovary and the pages of a remedial Spanish textbook: "He was running for his life over a barren, rocky terrain as the word tener ('to have')-a large and hairy irregular verb-raced after him on its spindly legs...