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Acting on the promise of the administration to change the source of student lighting to a safer and less expensive alternative, the Committee on College Life (COCL) has begun to ponder an existence without halogen lamps, those beloved lighting fixtures omnipresent on the Harvard campus. This bureaucratic contemplation is a necessary procedure, for the halogens are far from perfect. But the COCL had better make sure that students are well-supplied with substitute luminescence of comparable quality before it hastily recommends banning the lamps...
...words of commentator Otto Latsis, "the lost year for reform." More than 30 million people are earning less than Russia's minimum wage. The transformation of Russia's bloated conscript army into a much smaller, more efficient and better-armed fighting machine has not begun. In foreign policy, Yeltsin's more liberal aides had hoped to move Russia further into the mainstream of international relations. Instead, Moscow is bogged down in an ill-tempered exchange with the West over NATO's expansion plans. Western diplomats say the President's absence injects uncertainty into their negotiations with Foreign Minister Yevgeni Primakov...
...California, courts have begun putting value on the social trappings of a high-end marriage: the A-list party invitations and the good table at Spago. Given what awaits a 53-year-old divorce in Stamford who may be lucky to be invited to a potluck supper with Scrabble, Gary Wendt's decision to spin off Lorna after 31 years should get her half and then some...
...problem several levels above that. Says Thompson: "At Fort Wood, it seems to be a horizontal problem, not a vertical one. Their approach seems to be 'throw the rotten apples out of the barrel before they infect the other apples.' " Thompson adds that commanders at Fort Leonard Wood had begun taking action to protect female recruits before the Aberdeen incident broke, but are now bearing down more firmly. "Female recruits presenting allegations of sexual harassment are now given a more attentive hearing," Thompson says, "and that's to the greater good...
...Nude is not in this show, and neither is Duchamp's even more famous The Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors, Even (Large Glass), which is too frail to move from its abode in the Philadelphia Museum and is represented by a Swedish-made replica. Begun in 1915, the Large Glass is, as its title suggests, an elaborate sexual metaphor seeded with puns and techno-images. In the lower panel the nine sad little bachelors, mere tin soldiers in the game of sexual strategy, signal their desire through intervening bits of machinery to the floating "bride" above. As Freud said...