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Many teachers complain that the evaluationsystem does not allow for sufficient nurturingduring their early days in the program. The Exposadministrators who visit classes and give adviceare those who wield...
...resolve the censure of its president, Ira E. Stoll. Such openness about internal controversies is extremely rare in the larger world of American journalism. It's refreshing and laudable that the Crimson's staff recognizes all of the significant responsibilities that go along with the significant power media institutions wield...
Duehay, who is on the Phillips Brooks House Association advisory committee, says many students do not realize how much power they wield. "They're a very important part of the constituency," Duehay says...
Even assuming for a moment that TV does wield the incredible influence Senator Simon and his intellectual cronies claim, the result would hardly be wanton violence. TV may be violent, but on TV the bad guys always get killed in the end and murderers are always uncovered...
Today's list of endemic woes, topped by economic stagnation and ethnic warfare, certainly add up to a crisis. But it is a creeping, chronic crisis, not one that galvanizes people or calls for leaders to wield a sword of confrontation. Now, when the challenge is mainly to cooperate, to find national and multilateral solutions to long-term ills, today's leaders are coming up short...