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...ended, appropriately, with the concept carried to its logical extreme, a Bob Rafelson and Jack Nicholson film called "Head" that was essentially about the destruction of the group. The Monkeees were not a Woodstock kind of band, and most definitely not a post-Altamont proposition. But for a brief span, they were a bona fide phenomenon, a brilliant, opportunistic creation that somehow also managed to encapsulate the giddy, innocent sincerity...
Administrators listened to a brief introduction by Robert G. Stone Jr. '45, senior fellow of the Harvard Corporation and chair of the presidential search committee, and ate a buffet-style luncheon around a horseshoe-shaped table, after which Summers made a few remarks and then took questions...
...VoiceMale followed the Low Keys. After a brief intermission, the Blue Notes performed and then the Low Keys closed out the show...
Harvard had a brief 6-5 lead when Corkery returned the favor and assisted on a goal for classmate Harper. However, UMass yet again knotted the score on a goal from attacker Hope Zelinger. Crimson freshman Jen Brooks took a pass from Hussey and beat Cyndi Doyle to give Harvard a 7-6 lead at 17:53 in the second half...
Given the passion each author musters, mothers will be relieved that Crittenden, for the moment, has the last word. Though her thesis--that parenting imposes unfair penalties on women--is as old as motherhood itself, she stitches together recent research with a brief history of wifery and turns out a fresh, persuasive argument. Inflexible workplaces, financial inequities in marriage (and divorce), and the ineligibility of unpaid caregivers for the government's major social-insurance programs make motherhood the "single biggest risk factor for poverty in old age," she writes. Her recipe for "bring[ing] children up without putting women down...