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...beams as Bennett rumbles in, trailed by aides. He smiles, waves, pats shoulders, walking canted forward from the waist as though leaning into a wind. Bennett is a big man -- 6 ft. 2 in., 216 lbs. A friend once pointed him out as "the one who looks like a buffalo." Bennett is in Nashua to praise Amherst as a "School of Excellence," one that does well without begging for federal money. "Insofar as people look to Washington for solutions, they're wrong," says Bennett. At these whistle stops, Bennett usually teaches a class, something his wife Elayne, an ex-teacher...
...through kitchens or hustled around to the back door. So it was a gratifying day for them last week when the U.S. Supreme Court in effect held the front door open. The court unanimously upheld a New York City law that bans such discrimination at many private clubs. Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Washington have already passed similar laws. More such ordinances are now expected. Says Donna Lenhoff of the Women's Legal Defense Fund: "The last bastion of white male power will be forced to throw in the towel...
Some seniors also complained that they had hoped to talk with more of their classmates before graduation. "It would be a wonderful thing if there was a general place where the seniors could expect to see fellow seniors," said Vaughn J. Buffalo...
...highly literary -- he reads widely, and the script for Speed-the-Plow has an epigraph from Thackeray's Pendennis -- few of his witticisms translate well into print, because he does not write rounded, formal speeches. The movie men in Speed-the-Plow, much like the thugs in American Buffalo (1975), the actors in A Life in the Theater (1977) and the singles-bar habitues of Sexual Perversity in Chicago, erupt naturalistically in fragments, in repetitions, in overlapping counterpoint of threats and expostulations and profuse four-letter words. Their conversation sounds authentic, yet is so idiosyncratic to its author that...
...high number of injuries, the team is not officially recognized by the Athletic Department, so injuries to rugby players are not included in the department's planning. "Sometimes our players won't get in as quickly or get as much attention as they want," says rugby player Vaughn J. Buffalo...