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Frankel complains that judges will spend days considering lengthily briefed points of law but rarely devote more than an hour to deciding a man's sentence. "My point is that there is rarely, if ever, much to take longer about," he says. "There are virtually no rules or tests...
At twelve he made his acting debut in a play about fairies called The Goldfish. At 17 he had graduated from playing the "juve" and was delivering his lines with that crisp, ironic, haughty precision that an entire generation of actors subsequently learned not to imitate lest they sound like...
The institute grants no degrees, has no scheduled courses and no laboratories. It has 28 permanent faculty members-ten mathematicians, six natural scientists, ten historians and two social scientists. They, and the 131 others who visit for a year, devote their time to research and writing. The institute, which is...
Because of the debts which they have accrued and because of pressure from their parents, many graduate students will be forced to shorten their programs. Those who are able to obtain the number of teaching units necessary to support themselves will be forced to devote less time to their research...
Teaching has been a valuable aspect of the professional training of graduate students. A marked change in their attitude toward teaching is forced by the Kraus Plan which shifts the emphasis to the financial value of teaching. The real salary paid for each unit of teaching has been reduced because...