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...think that the administration has to stay out of it, because in principle it should be the voice of students and it doesn't help for us to be involved," Epps said. "I really regret all the interventions from last year. I hope the three wise persons will solve those problems...

Author: By Sarah J. Schaffer, | Title: Council Creates Vote Commission | 9/14/1994 | See Source »

...principal concern about the position of faculty Dean is whether a job with such broad responsibilities can be carried out at all. Is it wise to enlarge a job that some believe to be, at present, too small in scope and too limited in authority for a professor, by combining it with one that may already be too large administratively...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Excerpts From Draft Of Committee Report | 9/14/1994 | See Source »

...addition to quickness, the offense will be characterized by wise shot selection and accurate close-range shooting, while the defense will be characterized by band fundamentals. In both places, the team carries more depth than last season, let alone Benson...

Author: By Sean D. Wissman, | Title: As Superstar Leaves, Benson Leads Water Polo | 9/12/1994 | See Source »

...Toolate, or perhaps not, because her birth mother is supposed to have sold her as an infant to a Mrs. Toolate for the price of a bus ticket out of -- maybe -- Yuma, Arizona). Blue isn't cute like Shirley Temple (that "midget in drag," as one of Dunne's wise-guy industry types calls Blue's competition). Rather, she conveys adult sexuality to an unsettling degree, in part because a botched tonsillectomy (by the studio doctor who will one day perform her abortions) gives her Marlene Dietrich's voice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Hollywood Babble-On | 8/29/1994 | See Source »

Angela Chase is a wise 15-year-old whose future we can easily imagine. At 25 she will have grown out of her tremulous beauty into a more certain one. She will pursue a fulfilling, creative profession in a bustling Eastern metropolis and date gentle, intelligent young men who resemble Eric Stoltz. But before Angela (played by real-life teenager Claire Danes) arrives at this promising womanhood, she must cross the emotional hurdles of adolescence, and that passage is the subject of My So-Called Life, an unusually affecting one-hour drama that will make its debut Thursday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: The Clearasil Years | 8/29/1994 | See Source »

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