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...statement, prepared at a March 17th meeting of the committee, states that "Studies on alcohol abuse at colleges and universities show that there are significant secondary effects for roommates and friends of those who drink excessively...
While Harvard ranks eighth nationally as a baccalaureate source of male Ph.D. scientists and engineers, it is only 17th for women, according to National Science Foundation data. The absolute ranking is not important because it is dependent largely on total enrollments. But the gender differences do matter. Yale, Stanford, Brown, Cornell and several flagship state universities all graduate relatively larger proportions of future women scientists and engineers, so it can indeed be done without loss of quality. These figures are based on Ph.D.s granted between 1991 and 1995, and thus refer back to college graduates of the late 1980s, when...
...that when he was young, he tended to identify with blacks, perhaps because he felt alienated from white society. "I've learned to examine that a little more closely," he says. The deep interest remains, however, and he plans two more novels about the African diaspora, one set in 17th century Africa, the other in contemporary Liberia. For now, he's delighted with the Academy Award fuss about The Sweet Hereafter (in which he appears briefly as a local doctor). Director Egoyan, with whom he worked for two years advising on the script, overflows with praise: "One of the greatest...
...amateur underdog, trashed parts of the Olympic Village before departing. A sparkly Tara Lipinski ("Occupation: pupil") and an obviously disappointed Michelle Kwan ("Hobby: corresponding with pen pals") claimed gold and silver, but Nicole Bobek, who'd hoped to join them on the medal stand, ended up a disappointing 17th. It generally fell to women to lift America's spirits: Nikki Stone, told she could never ski again after a back injury two years ago, claiming a gold in freestyle aerials; or Chris Witty, daughter of Walter Witty (just one letter from a daydream), winning a bronze and a silver...
...could also be very surprising, and in its insistent reduction of the human form to mechanics, extremely weird--particularly when Leger's obsession with modernity coexisted with a sense of form and construction that went straight back to those archetypal figures of French classicism, Nicolas Poussin in the 17th century and Jacques-Louis David in the 18th. And what a draftsman Leger turns out to have been! Some of the drawings in this show are among the finest of the 20th century, and this too will come as a surprise...