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Annette Bening plays whores too -- Hollywood sometimes thinks that for women prostitution is the world's only profession -- but these doxies are in control. The smile that dimples her face in Valmont and The Grifters signals the sexual predator anticipating a hearty meal. An off-Broadway alumnus, Bening also did brief time in Postcards from the Edge as a romantic rival of Meryl Streep's. Time will tell if she can challenge Streep's pre-eminence. For now she seems a better bet as a threat to Kathleen Turner; she comes on like Turner's slim, sex-kitten kid sister...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA | 2/18/1991 | See Source »

...support is especially painful for Harvard Coach and Dartmouth alumnus Peter Roby, who has beaten the Big Green twice in 12 tries. The only win in Briggs Cage was back in the 1985-'86 season...

Author: By Andy Fine, | Title: No More Jeers for No Cheers | 12/12/1990 | See Source »

...alumnus, and he's got experience as a president," says Kurt Moeller, an editor of the Rice Thresher, the Rice University daily newspaper. Moeller also cites 48-year old Rupp's relative youth as a plus for the Harvard search committee, which wants a president to serve at least 10 to 20 years...

Author: By D. RICHARD De silva, | Title: How the Search Plays In...Bloomington | 12/10/1990 | See Source »

...from 6:30 to 9 p.m., which will feature seven pieces of music played by college music groups and taped exclusively by the station. The special will include a 1972 Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra recording of Prokofiev's "Peter and the Wolf," narrated by President Derek C. Bok, said WHRB alumnus David R. Elliot '64-'65, secretary of WHRB's board of trustees...

Author: By Joanna M. Weiss, | Title: WHRB to Celebrate 50 Years | 12/4/1990 | See Source »

...University as a whole. All in all, the unstinting generosity of our alumni--of time, energy, money and intellectual resources--is essential to maintaining the excellence of the institution and it has been a longstanding policy of the University to admit the son or daughter of an alumnus when all other factors are substantially equal. We believe that this policy has been carried out fairly and evenly over the years and that the children of alumni are not only well qualified academically, as the OCR report indicated, but also perform in outstanding ways throughout their careers here...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Admissions Office Strikes Back: The Process Is Fair | 11/26/1990 | See Source »

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