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College presidents are a fairly unflappable lot, but nothing gets their goat quite like the issue of rankings. Take a complex institution, crunch it down into a single number, and the adjectives start flying: "Silly." "Snotty." "Scandalous." Echoing many of his peers, Robert Weisbuch, president of Drew University, blames the rank-ordering of diverse schools for much of the current college-admissions frenzy. "It's almost as though we've created a monster," he says. And yet, despite years of vituperation, most schools keep dutifully filling out the surveys that make these ratings possible...
...value to the missing statistics; in one year, Reed fell from the second quartile to the fourth. (Since then, the iconoclastic school has suffered no shortage of qualified applicants.) U.S. News now plugs in whatever data it can find for nonparticipants. "They won't let you quit," Drew president Weisbuch says of the magazine's data collectors. "I would spell...
...slopes this winter. Can the risks of skiing be reduced? Ski-school directors and designers of ski equipment have long argued that better instruction and improved equipment could cut the injury rate considerably. Three doctors from the Boston School of Medicine question this. Drs. Joshua Gutman, Jonathan Weisbuch and Milton Wolf write in the A.M.A. Journal that despite better equipment and training, the injury rate for skiers has changed little, if at all, in twelve years. What has changed is the nature of ski injuries...
...Harry Smith, who seems too bitter, too sharp at first, but who persuades us finally; the Earl of Kent, Yann Weymouth, who acts with welcome restraint amid the general ranting; and Edgar, Richard Backus, who makes a fine fool and a noble Edgar. John Ross as Albany and Thomas Weisbuch as Cornwall both perform well, but they are in demanding company. John Lithgow plays an irregular Gloucester. His blinding scene is one of the play's best moments, but too frequently he swings his long arms to less purpose; he is Marlowe's Edward II a little older...
...play's grandiose scale, its best moments--and there are a number of good ones--come when the leads can shed the crowds, stop bellowing with all stops out, and play to one another as if they are, after all, really people. Brutus (Mark Bramhall) and Cassius (Thimas Weisbuch) are at their best in the confrontations both before and after Caesar's murder. In the first act, Weisbuch's wily Cassius, his eyes darting, his manner at once servile and cunning, convincingly lures Brutus into the conspiracy. And the meeting of the two great liberators who have become petulant scrapping...