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This is the first time the Coop has offered textbook refunds. In the past, the Coop has offered only a ten percent discount on pre-priced paper-back books. The new refund will be issued in addition to the paperback discount. "We're saying, 'Hey students, you're important to us. We want to give you back something now.'" Murphy said...
...This is really crummy," Stilgoe said. "This is a required text...If the Coop isn't paying its bills, this could destroy confidence in placing textbook orders with the Coop...
...misses. Lincoln, despite good intentions and a great subject, is a textbook case of wrongheaded network decision making. One problem is the all- star voice-overs. Richard Dreyfuss, Oprah Winfrey, Glenn Close, Richard Widmark, Rod Steiger and Arnold Schwarzenegger (as Lincoln's Bavarian-born secretary, John G. Nicolay), among many others, seem to have been recruited mainly for marquee value. Their too famous voices distract from the subject matter; nor do they bring any particular eloquence to their tasks, least of all Jason Robards, who overdoes the corn-pone twang as the most uncharismatic Lincoln imaginable...
...early bruiting of Lloyd Bentsen's name looked like a textbook case of strategic leaking. How upset would liberals be over Bentsen's probusiness record, his ill-fated $10,000 breakfast club for favored campaign contributors and his off-again, on-again memberships in segregated clubs? The answer: not very. But before Bentsen -- the ultimate old-politics nominee -- was formally unveiled, the Clinton high command seemed to be hedging its bets by underlining its belief in affirmative action with this leaked story in the New York Times: CLINTON EXPECTED TO NAME WOMAN ATTORNEY GENERAL...
Although these poems deal with the past, Schnackenberg is not writing about distant textbook history--instead, she probes the connections between the past and the present. For Schnackenberg, poetry itself links...