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Jack Hoy, president of the New England Board of Higher Education, described Dukakis' record as "remarkable." He said that before 1978, the state had little revenue to devote to public institutions, and that Wood's letter was drawn from his experiences before 1978.
Wright disdains the idea of leaving determinations critical to American foreign policy to "someone in the State Department" -- say, the Secretary of State. The Speaker, who has of late been playing the plenipotentiary, perhaps fancies himself better suited to the role. But it is truly odd to prefer leaving such...
With the written word proven a failure, primitive people were now forced to develop the power of speech in order to communicate to each other when they needed something like a haircut or a dog. Yet as we progressed evolutionarily, human communication needs also expanded--going from "I need a...
...most major Hollywood studios still produce Beta versions of their movies, retail stores and rental shops devote most of their shelf space these days to the more popular (and more profitable) newly released VHS versions of such films as Roxanne and Tin Men. But as the ranks of Beta devotees thin out, they have one small consolation. They will face less competition in renting the Beta ) tapes still available. When they want to check out that well-worn Beta copy of Annie Hall, Star Wars or the very first Rocky movie, it is almost always on the shelf...
The official word on Reading Period, as we all know, is that it's the time after vacation and before finals during which classes do not meet and students may devote themselves to studying for finals. If this were true then our "vacation" would not be so bad--we would...