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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Think, Mr. Carswell (wherever you are), think, all of you: imagine the situation of your grader. (Unless, of course he is of the Wheatstone Bridge-double differential CH3C6H2 (NO2)3 set. These people are mere cogs; automata; they simply feel to make sure you have punched the right holes. As they cannot think, they cannot be impressed; they are clods. The only way to beat their system is to cheat.) In the humanities and social sciences, it is well to remember there is a man (occasionally a woman), a human type filling out your picture postcard. What does he want...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Grader's Reply | 8/14/1990 | See Source »

...encounter; and as they pile up, we decide C: (Harvard being Harvard, one does not give D's. Consider C- a failure). Why? Not because they are a sign the student does not know the material, or hasn't thought creatively, or any of that folly. They simply make tedious reading. "Locke is a transitional figure." "The whole thing boils down to human rights." Now I ask you, I have 92 bluebooks to read this week, and all I ask, really, is that you keep me awake. Is that so much...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Grader's Reply | 8/14/1990 | See Source »

Jawad George, executive director of the National Association of Arab Americans, said he thought Jackson's efforts might make a difference in restoring peace...

Author: By Adam K. Goodheart, | Title: Jackson Visits Prince At Cambridge Hotel | 8/14/1990 | See Source »

Theme-park actors do not, to be sure, make much use of training in Shakespeare or Method-style character analysis. But they say acting study helps nonetheless. Kevin Kraft, 22, is a University of Southern California junior in his second summer as a clown and juggler at Hersheypark; he has also toured with the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. Says Kraft: "If I pretend in slow motion to grab for a nonexistent ball, I'd better have a real intention to catch it, which is acting technique, or the comedy falls flat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Where The Stagestruck Get Started | 8/13/1990 | See Source »

Only a week after Governor Michael Dukakis signed a law extending the 5% sales tax to 594 service industries, legislators tried to rescind it. To make up for a resulting shortfall of over $250 million in the $13.4 billion budget, a 4% cut in most government services was put into effect. Although only 1.5% of taxpayers would be affected by limiting federal deductions to $10,000, it would devastate a state struggling with its largest tax hike ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Governors Are Squawking | 8/13/1990 | See Source »

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