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But several undergraduates hit the campaign trail with rather fancy titles, working inside the campaign offices. Some say they devote as many as 70 hours a week to their jobs. Student campaign big whigs describe widely ranging duties, including research on issues, organizing student support, and doing advance preparation for...
Fox, however, said Harvard's project which apparently would seek to help similarly disadvantaged groups would actually benefit from the flexibility it allows participants. He said the College program would allow students to devote as little as one or two hours a week in Cambridge neighborhoods.
Despite his bureaucratic successes, Verba never wavers from his primary dedication to academics. He has cheerfully performed a difficult balancing act with administrative and scholarly responsibilities. "Basically my deanship is supposedly a half-time deanship. It works out to half-time an administrator, half-time a researcher and half-time...
Without the lure of big names, the nightly The MacNeil/Lehrer Report over 270 public television stations consistently provides TV's best discussion of public affairs. Robert MacNeil, once of NBC, is a refugee from network news ("aware of its frequent triviality, its distorting brevity, its obsession with action and...
When his attention wavers from the buck, ape-neck Stavros is racked by culture shock. Women provide most of the tremors. He half-believes with his sister Fofo that "most American women were, or had recently been, prostitutes." Almost in wonder at his own creation, Kazan watches his protagonist devote...