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Janet M. Blazek '93 of Eliot House wondered how her twin sister Joyce won with a guess that was 40 beam off the mark...
...wish to close with a quotation from Joseph Beam, a black gay writer who died of AIDS...
...product of a thin, 65-ft. plastic mirror mounted on the unmanned Russian spacecraft Progress, which, from its 225-mile-high perch, reflected light on a sleeping Europe. The umbrella-like mirror, called Banner, did not quite turn night into day, but it did project a weak 2 1/2-mile-wide beam that danced across the Continent for six minutes. A French observer described the flashing pulse of light as "luminous diamonds following one another across...
...only it were so. Just when he wanted to focus "like a laser beam" on the economy, Clinton was sidetracked for five days by a once obscure campaign promise to lift the nearly 50-year-old ban on gays in the military. No sooner had Clinton emerged from the embarrassing miscalculation about Zoe Baird than he found himself in an even stickier political quagmire. After promising in his Inaugural Address to end an era of "deadlock and drift," Clinton was suddenly at war with the Joint Chiefs of Staff as well as members of his own party in Congress. Worse...
Celebrity has its muscle in America, but politics has the power. Eddie Murphy can't drop a bomb, he can only make one. Steven Spielberg can beam E.T. home, but he can't run NASA. Superagent Mike Ovitz can't appoint a Supreme Court Justice (at least, we don't think he can). So the artists, most of them liberal Democrats, came to celebrate the politics of inclusion: after 12 years, or maybe 30, they were back on a party line to Washington clout...