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...that Reagan's policies caused the recession, the President has been even less successful in convincing them that he is bringing it to an end. A startling 77% of those polled by Yankelovich expect the slump to persist all through 1983, vs. 14% who believe that it will drag on only a few more months...
...Hoping to squeeze out a few more screams (and mercilessly to drag the production out to full feature length) the story then goes on to an exorcism, when the mostly irrelevant Father Tom (Andrew Prine) risks his career, and his life, to wage war with the devil. Sonny's body serving as the battlefield...
...gotten, for plagiarism is the most serious academic crime possible. Her pathetic attempts to weasel out of penalties on sophistries--she insisted just two weeks ago that "there was no attempt on my part to deceive" her Spanish professor--warrant equal criticism. But as her legal appeals drag through the courts interminably, it becomes increasingly clear that other issues relating to the campus case--besides just how unethical Napolitano's behavior has been--are much more intriguing...
...students. The Administrative Board, which Fox chairs, may seem big and had, but before on jumps to conclusions, it's worth realizing that Harvard's disciplinary policies diverge from those of most schools in ways that make the University both more merciful and less prone to public knock-down drag-outs like Napolitano's. Consider the following two aspects of Harvard's approach to punishment...
...burn, that long look into the lens." Surely Jonathan Winters was the inspiration for such Carson characters as the garrulous Aunt Blabby, the right-wing dimwit Floyd R. Turbo, even the huckstering greaseball Art Fern. Carnac the Magnificent is Steve Allen's Answer Man in swami's drag, and the Mighty Carson Art Players are Fred Allen's Mighty Allen Art Players with unreliable props. Carson's borrowings are leavened with respect and an originality that will run a thematic risk-"take left turns," as McCormick says-without becoming reckless. "He had an unfailing instinct...