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...ScanTron forms appear. CUE Guide forms need to be distributed on previously-specified days so that all students can take advantage of the forms. Nearly eighty-five ninety-sevenths of those who bother filling out the forms hail and applaud their professors and teaching fellows, bestowing fours and fives upon them with reckless abandon. Only a handful bother with twos or threes and only the tiniest smattering of students dare to bubble in a one. A large minority of respondents do not even write any comments at all, preferring to leave future students to their unadvised fates...
When Chase stumbles upon the body of Ella Fisher, a black dean, dead from an apparent fall, she's sure that the wrong kind of invisible hand is at work. She investigates the victim's death with two weapons: an analytical mind and an unabashed use of her feminine wiles. Flattering and flirting, she makes her way through the suspects: the playboy university president who promoted Fisher from the secretarial ranks, allegedly thanks to her talents between the sheets; a slimy comptroller with a repertoire of bilingual--but still awful--come-ons (as in, "You're looking recherche this evening...
...ESPN last week, was so disappointing. The discussion rarely rose above the level of sports-talk radio. A few urgent topics--such as how the millions of dollars earned by black and Latino pro athletes can be converted into durable economic development for their communities--were briefly touched upon. But most of the exchange was, well, inside baseball--so narrowly focused on the inner workings of big-league college and professional sports that any lessons for the larger society were left unclear. How, for example, increasing the number of white cornerbacks in the National Football League will improve race relations...
...real time by writer-director James Toback. Indeed, if he had developed his situation--two girls discover that their guy has been blithely having his way with both of them simultaneously--he might have given us a chic, updated version of one of those old-fashioned farces that once upon a time regaled Broadway...
...boys, girls, moms and dads. (U.S. Space Camp parent-child programs are also available in Huntsville, Ala., and Mountain View, Calif.) The ultimate hands-on science museum, it gives you a chance to say yes the next time Junior asks if he can go to the moon. Upon arrival, a maximum of 72 participants are broken up into six teams of 12. From that moment on, the activities are nonstop. You'll build and launch your own rockets, participate in very realistic space simulations, and tour the Kennedy Space Center and the Astronaut Hall of Fame. You'll also visit...