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...some audiences -- and even to some producers -- a woman comic is an oxymoron, like a wise fool. Whenever Rudner has been considered as the potential star of her own TV show, she says, "the first thing that happens in all of my interviews is, 'We'll assign writers to you, and they will follow you around.' I say, 'But I am a writer. Can't I make a contribution?' And they say, 'Well, you're not really network approved, because you haven't written anything yet.' " No wonder that Rudner is off in Britain now, shooting a series...
Ayelet Waldman, a third-year law student who last year was a teaching fellow for Sociology 116, "Women and the Law," said she and a group of students are forming a special liason group that will assign volunteer law students to advise students who say they are victims of date rape. Waldman said students developed the idea last spring, during a class discussion of "ideas to help the many women on campus who were victims of date rape...
Nagy asserts that although the course will assign one less paper this year, the readings have been getting gradually more comprehensive...
...state department of education ruled that Michael should be "mainstreamed" into a school in his home district of Chichester. The new school promised to accept Ashley, install wheelchair ramps and assign attendants to help him use the bathroom twice a day. But all Michael wants is to take Ashley to his old school. His parents have challenged the dog ban as discriminatory against the disabled...
...example, Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett--still smarting over his housing compromise last year--might support a plan to assign students randomly to cheer for one sport each year. Or the Core committee could require students to cheer for teams in eight of 10 categories...