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...years ago, Paul Smalley found himself getting sucked into a stereotype. At 21 he returned home from military prison a frustrated, unemployed young black man who also happened to be a brand-new unmarried father. His son and namesake was already four months old, and Smalley was so unfamiliar with his new role that he thought he could not touch the baby without permission. "I was asking if I could pick him up," he says. "I just didn't feel like a father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Teaching Young Fathers the Ropes | 8/10/1992 | See Source »

When hollywood moguls dine at Mortons, their favorite entree is fish out of water. They love movies that reveal the familiar through brand-new eyes. If detective Harrison Ford could cozy up to the Amish in Witness, why couldn't detective Melanie Griffith go undercover among Brooklyn's Hasidic Jews and become one of the mishpocha? The reason why not is A STRANGER AMONG US. This pill of a thriller, written by Robert Avrech, manages to demean everyone involved, regardless of creed or previous credits. The usually workmanlike Sidney Lumet directs Griffith to be shrill and most of the Hasidim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Short Takes: Jul. 27, 1992 | 7/27/1992 | See Source »

Next year, Yardlings will have a brand-new dean of first-year students, Elizabeth S. Nathans. The former Duke University associate dean has said she plans to modify Harvard's first-year advising system so that students take better advantage of the resources available...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Who's Who at Harvard: Meet the University's Chief Paper Pushers | 7/3/1992 | See Source »

...Busch-Reisinger Museum, connected to the Fogg building in brand-new Werner Otto Hall, was founded in 1901 and specializes in art from German-speaking Europe...

Author: By Joanna M. Weiss, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Just Oozes With Culture | 6/27/1992 | See Source »

...dollar but awarding no subsidies for maintenance work. One expert likens it to not reimbursing drivers for the cost of changing oil in their cars while paying 90% of the price of a valve job. "The attitude was the faster it crumbles, the faster we'll get brand-new," says New York Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a stalwart highway watcher. Moreover, maintenance is unglamorous. "Nobody ever had a ribbon-cutting ceremony for fixing cracks," notes Moynihan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why America Has So Many Potholes | 5/4/1992 | See Source »

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