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Most of us remember homework, if we remember it at all, as one of the minor annoyances of growing up. Sure, we dreaded the multiplication tables and those ridiculous shoe-box dioramas. But let's admit it: we finished most of our assignments on the bus ride to school--and who even bothered with the stuff until after the requisite hours had been spent alphabetizing baseball cards, gabbing on the phone or watching reruns of Gilligan's Island...
...discussion of the program is still pending the submission of financial information from Administrative Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Margot N. Gill. Following council approval, the full Faculty is scheduled to take up the issue at its meeting in March. The program would begin to admit students this fall...
...kidding! Clinton and Starr? One guy can't admit to the truth, and the other spends millions of taxpayers' dollars to prove a point that the American people don't want anything to do with. We could have used that money for education or to feed the poor. KURT SHOEMAKER Pennsville...
...right, of course, about the third alternative, and a very sensible one it is--working out some system of fooling the grader, although I think I should prefer the word "impressing." We admit to being impressionable, but not to being hyper-credulous simps. His first two tactics for system-beating, his Vague Generalities and Artful Equivocations, seem to presume the latter, and are only going to convince Crimson-reading graders (there are a few and we tell our friends) that the time has come to tighten the screws just a bit more...
...that I've made it out of Central Park alive, what have I resolved to do in 1999? I've got to admit, those vegetables are still nagging at me. Now that I've tried some of the 30-odd recipes readers have sent me for Brussels sprouts, I'm looking for a couple of good ones for bok choy...