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Nearly two weeks have passed since the Class of 2009 arrived on campus. And despite a fortnight of polite small talk, mandatory meetings, placement tests, auditions, seminar applications, and course selection, most freshmen have begun to settle...
...record to instruct higher courts) by which the defense would have sought to disprove Scopes' misdemeanor through "reconciling" the Biblical with the scientific account of creation, there remained to the trial nothing but the bald testimony of two schoolboys that Scopes had "taught Evolution." Though the trial lasted a fortnight, costing over $25,000,? the schoolboys' testimony was practically all the farmer-jurors were permitted to hear in the courtroom. It alone constituted the basis for their verdict of "Guilty...
After a respite of barely a year, with the banality of the refrain still ringing in the ear, "the politics of the future" is back. When Gary Hart announced a fortnight ago that he would retire from the Senate (to run, he all but admitted, for the presidency in 1988), he couldn't lay off the word. In a four-page statement, he reached for it eight times. In 1984 he had "pointed our party toward the future." For '88, he pledges "to help move our party and our country into the future." Why? Because even now "we are drifting...
...seeing a doctor just to get a TV or microwave oven." But, he adds, there is no evidence that this has happened. The incentive chase may also induce some stress of its own. At Scherer, a worker who has not been late or absent for ten years wins a fortnight for two in Florida. One employee now in his sixth year of perfect service, says Scherer, "tells me that about twice a year he jumps out of bed in a panic in the middle of the night afraid he has missed his alarm clock...
...About a fortnight ago, Zalta was named one of the two new producers for next year’s run, the 158th of the company, but first in its new, temporary home away from its 12 Holyoke home of yore...