Word: explainers
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...rules balance the right of the public to know about threats to its safety and the right of a rehabilitated criminal to pursue a new life without having to constantly explain unfortunate events from the past. We urge Gov. Michael S. Dukakis to sign this sensible reform as he has promised...
Here's an idea: give the withdrawn Grammy to Arsenio Hall. He started all this. "We were tired of being made fun of by Arsenio Hall," said Rob Pilatus, 25, at a rowdy press conference in Los Angeles last week. Pilatus, one half of Milli Vanilli, was struggling to explain how the duo's yearnings for legitimacy had provoked their German record producer, Frank Farian, into confirming what had long been show-biz rumor: that Pilatus and Fab Morvan, 25, were in fact techno-puppets, fronts for a studio-manufactured sound that sold 10 million copies of the album Girl...
...kind of question students at Harvard's graduate school of education are confronting in the first course in the U.S. designed specifically to train urban superintendents. No conceptual brainteaser here, to be discussed over Brie and Chablis. This grisly event actually happened earlier this year, and it helps explain why the big-city superintendent's job is one of the purest forms of crisis management this side of the Oval Office, and one of the most discouraging. "Within the ground rules of the system, it's just about impossible to succeed today at that job," concludes Chester Finn, director...
...distance from Iraq may explain why so many Harvard students have ignored the buildup and impending war. But it cannot excuse such ignorance. The crisis in the Gulf will affect all of us soon enough--whether through friends or relatives killed, through an ensuing domestic economic crisis or, eventually, through a draft. By then, many will belatedly wonder what the fighting...
Rules of the Road: Obviously disappointed with his squad's inability to sustain an early 16-8 lead, Roby had an interesting method to explain his team's lack of execution and poor play...