Word: calling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...professional Peabody House Theater in Sommerville has chosen to mount The Death of Bessie Smith to punctuate our healing with a question mark. Despite the good intentions of the cast and some genuine moments of radiant acting, The Death of Bessie Smith fails in its appointed role as wakeup call to the insidious prejudice which still permeates our society. The play may not accomplish precisely what the director has set out to do, but it certainly possesses a myriad of redeeming qualities...
...real gem, Resignation.com. Arianna Huffington, our favorite Greek-heiress-turned-pundit, has had her minions construct a site in tribute to that most dramatic of political statements--quitting. The site includes a history of notable leaders who have thrown in the towel, a list of publications which have called for the President to step down and an opportunity for people to issue their own call for Clinton's surrender...
...think I'd be comfortable with that because I don't want to teach.' So then I thought about what I did do already in the House and I went back to him a couple of days later and I said to him that he could legitimately call me composer in residence and pay me a small sum of money for what I already do totally spontaneously as part of being me, as a composer...
Harvard students are a happy bunch. Between course lotteries and Pudding punches, matchbox car-sized cockroaches and papery firedoors, tapered jeans and pocket protectors, what is there not to be thrilled about? Certainly no one ever considers leaving the college. Without that degree, Solomon Brothers won't call. Not will HLS, HBS, HMS or GSAS. Goshdarnit, even Legal Aid will turn you away. And anyhow, the Head of the Charles is coming...
...After this initial phase of the hearings -- the "stipulation" phase -- come the subpoenas. Will we see Monica Lewinsky, Vernon Jordan, Linda Tripp and all your other favorite characters from the grand jury hearings? Will Democrats call even the elusive Mr. Starr to account for his actions? That's up to Judiciary chair Henry Hyde and ranking member John Conyers, drawing up subpoenas together or -- as is more likely -- unilaterally. Barring the release of a politically timed second Starr report, which the independent counsel says he is still mulling over, there'll be few earth-shaking developments until after the November...