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...detail three or four times; only a very slow-witted reader could fail to mark its significance. In the car after interviewing Mirry about Gavin's death, one policeman turns to his partner and asks significantly, in time-honored detective novel tradition, "I wonder how she knew [the murder weapon] was a spanner," since the precise murder weapon had not been divulged...

Author: By Elizabeth A. Murphy, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Little Mystery to a Lighthearted 'Underworld' | 11/14/1997 | See Source »

...hope for any big surprises. The plot is strikingly generic, the "twist" is anticlimactic and predictable and the secret weapon is nothing more than a great...

Author: By Scott E. Brown, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Stupidity, Sexism Plague a Lifeless 'Jackal' | 11/14/1997 | See Source »

...weapon in a class and race war in the United States and that is what we need to think about," Prashad said...

Author: By Tara L. Colon, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: India Celebrates Independence | 11/10/1997 | See Source »

BOSTON--Harvard's prime weapon in its battle against the rising cost of higher education is need-based financial aid, President Neil L. Rudenstine said in his testimony Friday before the National Commission on the Cost of Higher Education...

Author: By Matthew W. Granade, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Rudenstine Defends Need-Based Aid Before Commission | 11/10/1997 | See Source »

...being waged against affirmative action, the most potent weapon of all may be a harmless-looking sheaf of papers stashed in the book-lined office of Carl Cohen, a philosophy professor at the University of Michigan. The documents, which Cohen obtained by filing a Freedom of Information Act request, contain the top-secret charts and grids the university uses in selecting its incoming class. With their frequent references to the race of applicants, and apparent use of different and lower selection criteria for minority applicants, Cohen's materials are the kind of evidence that make a conservative litigator's pulse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACE IN AMERICA: THE NEXT GREAT BATTLE OVER AFFIRMATIVE ACTION | 11/10/1997 | See Source »

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