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RESCUING JEFFREY By Richard Galli Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, $19.95 Reviewed by JOYCE S. SLATER More than 50 authors are scheduled to give talks at the Times Festival of [...]

Joyce S. Meyers is a partner at Montgomery, McCracken, Walker & Rhoads, LLP in Philadelphia, PA and an Associate Editor of Litigation. This article originally appeared in the Winter 2002 [...]

LEAD: 'WHAT's a record player?' the clerk behind the counter asked, when I had finally decided that my faithful machine of some 20 years needed replacing. 'WHAT's a record player?' […]

We met August 31, 1996 in Riverview, Florida at the home of Dan and Pat Caruso. He planned a quick meeting because he was moving to Virginia in September where [...]

HAVE you noticed that insert cards are threatening to take over our magazines? Cards of all shapes and sizes - tear-out cards, pull-out cards, loose cards, fold-out cards - and […]

LEAD: ALTHOUGH it is 18 degrees this blue and white winter morning, the sweat is trickling between my shoulder blades and down my back. I am wearing just a sweater […]

FOR AS long as most of us can remember, children have been asked the mind-numbing question, 'What do you want to be when you grow up?' Since they are resilient […]

LEAD: AMERICAN women are under siege. And some of us have met this enemy before in . . . Was it 1950? 1964? The exact years seem to blur, but […]

Several letters to the editor are presented in response to articles in previous issues including the "Swastikas, Slurs and Torment in Town's Schools" in the November 8, 2013 issue, "The Death of Letter-Writing," by Mason Currey in the November 10, 2013 issue, and "Oklahoma! Where the Kids Learn Eraly" in the November 10, 2013 issue.

In this article the author discusses student veterans in the U.S. and argues that providing services to veterans and their families for dealing with emotional distress associated with military experience should be a priority for college administrations. She recounts instances of argument, discrimination, and fear that student veterans displayed in her class on U.S. military history and comments how the military experience of veterans severely influences their opinions regarding historical study.

The article examines the faculty-committee structure in universities and colleges in the United States. It compares the faculty-committee structure to the appendix in the human body. It cites the case involving final drafting of a calendar that showed the fall semester ending December 24, 1985. The article concludes with the author's suggestion for a one-year moratorium on all committees.