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...Mary Jo Bane, one of President Clinton's highest-ranking welfare officials, announced Wednesday that she would step down to protest Clinton's signing of the recent welfare bill, which ended the guarantee of cash assistance to the nation's poorest children...
However, more importantly, I think one of the best ways to reduce electricity use on campus might be to stop using the environmentally-conscious light bulbs that are the bane of every dorm dweller...
Even the orchestra, usually the bane of Harvard musicals, does its job well. It avoids the cardinal sun of drowning out the sin of drowning out the cast a special danger at the Agassiz with its wretched acoustics, and one that nearly sunk "The Mystery of Edwin Drood" two years ago. The jazzy score requires more precision and conviction than most there is very little room for judging in the trills of the mambo and America," and this group, reinforced by angers from the New England Conservatory and the Berklee and Longy Schools, is equal to it the few lapses...
...Harvard as a whole. Students can again look forward to Nye's illumination of international conflict; he has indicated that he may resume teaching after becoming accustomed to his new job. Perhaps after a similar period of adjustment Ellwood, who wrote landmark papers on poverty with Mary Jo Bane, will again contribute one of his charismatic guest lectures to Ec 10 or offer a course in the economics department...
...home." Some of Fox's kids' shows actually do have redeeming quality-Steven Spielberg's Animaniacs spouts Shakespeare and Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego? is a cartoon spin-off of the geography-minded pbs show. But the Power Rangers and their imitators will continue to be the bane of parents' and educators' existence-until something new comes along...