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Witten is a textbook illustration of a syndrome Harvard officials call one of the thorniest features of academic life today. The rising number of two-career marriages has caused personnel problems in many occupations, but in none more than in academia...
Apprentices may not offer input on the production at hand, but are expected to write a joint paper after each show to serve as "textbook references on the creative process," producer Stuart Ostrow said yesterday...
Unlike the textbook-case mass murderer, who is often a paranoid schizophrenic, the Tylenol killer is apparently not disabled by delusions or incapacitated by hallucinations. Indeed, the killer's ability to handle cyanide and put it into small capsules indicates that he is meticulous, well organized and scientifically acute. Says Dr. Shervert Frazier, chief psychiatrist at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Mass.: "He knows how to carry out actions in a goal-oriented, purposeful...
...supposed to get her diploma last spring, actually, but was found guilty of copying two full pages of a Spanish textbook in a term paper. Princeton's a Discipline Committee voted to withhold her diploma for a year. According to The Daily Princetonian, the campus newspaper, the plagiarism incident will remain on her transcript for life, thanks to a University policy...
...Textbook prices, in fact, are one of the thornier issues facing the Coop and perhaps the best example of the philosophical debate over the Coop's direction. Textbooks, almost everyone who knows about the Coop agrees, are simply not profitable for the store. With an extensive search service, liberal return policy, and relatively low mark-up, the Coop annually faces a break-even prospect at best in the field. Yet at the same time, students are looking themselves at an increasingly tight financial squeeze, and overall textbook prices are not insignificant, running most Harvard students upwards of $300 a year...