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Whether one agrees with these criticisms or not, it should be of concern that an ombudsman, whose function it is to conduct internal reviews of a newspaper's coverage, should have to play the role of commentator because political journalists are in unanimous agreement. That he felt so compelled leads one to wonder if such agreement among journalists would result if the Administration official in question had not been a former television correspondent and if the issue had not been press relations...
...Harvard senior who only associates Robespierre with a popular rock band on campus is hardly an educated individual, and an upperclassman who can't integrate a function is hardly differentiable from a sophisticated high school graduate. This inconsistency between the expectations of a Harvard student and reality stems from an insufficient advising system and a Core Curriculum which does not make enough demands on students...
...question--one in a series which gave more information than it sought--almost wasn't asked. The semi-professional brown nosers who run the Law School Forum had ended the question period and were anxious to whisk Falwell away to some exclusive function...
...Counselors says declining interest inrecruiting among members of the Class of 1986 canbe partially attributed to the fact that morestudents were willing to go out and find their ownjobs, a function of their positive view of the jobmarket...
...boom in upscale help is partly a function of a cost-conscious economic climate. Newly minted lawyers in large cities, for example, can make more than $50,000 a year. Says Anthony Griffin, a partner at St. Clair: "Hiring temporary lawyers enabled us to expand and contract without overextending ourselves...