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...insuring that athletes are given a thorough education once they arrive on campus, not dictating to college administrators which measures of academic potential must be used. Black educators have not opposed the "core" curriculum proposal, and the requirement that athletes make progress toward attaining a degree seems equally wise. Many heavily recruited athletes go to college primarily to train for the big leagues; that right should not be taken away from them if they are poor or Black or both. But most of them will fall short of the pros, and they will be better prepared for more conventional careers...
...Republican Paul Trible, 36, sat down for a deferential chat with sixth-term Mississippi Democrat John Stennis, 81. In the House, children crawled around the floor and squalled lustily as their parents took the oath of office. Bluegrass music twanged through the Rayburn Office Building, where Freshman Democrat Bob Wise of West Virginia staged an impromptu folk dance...
...Dieu, c'est im possible!), but something else that has al ways eluded her: the perfect role. After purring and pouting her way through countless films as the sultry femme fatale who could resist anything but temptation, Bardot has turned herself into another French institution, the wise and slightly world-weary philosophe. Voila! At 48, the sex object has become...
...production for television, with naturalistic sets and discrete scenes, thus reducing the grand babble to Masterpiece Theater whispers. Or they could allow the actors to trace their familiar patterns, asprawl on the big stage, and catch as catch can. They chose the latter, and it was a wise choice; now this epochal production is preserved as fact, not as the fond memory of the 125,000 or so theatergoers lucky enough to have seen...
...recognize that my political future might, because of this action, go down into oblivion," said Gramm, 40, who was elected to his third term in November. "I do not know whether this is a wise decision but I do believe that it is an honest...