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...folk hero to his people. The teetotaling vegetarian is conniving, disarming, engaging, and quick with such perfect sound bites as the fact that his favorite cartoon is Tom and Jerry, since the mouse so often wins. He is a master of symbolism: never much of a soldier, he chose a fighting man's khakis and holster for his daily costume. His checkered kaffiyeh provides instant recognizability in a crowd -- a risk, perhaps, to one who lives in the cross hairs, but a shrewd asset when it comes to maintaining his mythic

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YITZHAK RABIN & YASSER ARAFAT | 11/3/2005 | See Source »

...fear.” Early AIDS cases were hushed up or denied outright: “He kept getting things mysteriously wrong with him. It was very difficult to talk about. But eventually [AIDS] came to touch everybody somehow.”So shaken by the past, Hollinghurst unsurprisingly chose the 80s to inform both the setting and the tone of “The Line of Beauty”. But, he insists, his next project could go anywhere. He doubts a return to poetry – “There’s something more suited about poetry...

Author: By Laura E. Kolbe, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Gay Brit Draws 'Line' | 11/3/2005 | See Source »

Through it all, Gates was the department’s rock. He had been offered a spot at Princeton, like West and Appiah, but instead of jumping ship, chose to stay home and rebuild his relatively tattered department...

Author: By Daniel J. Mandel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Since They Parted Ways | 11/3/2005 | See Source »

Through it all, Gates was the department’s rock. He had been offered a spot at Princeton, like West and Appiah, but instead of jumping ship, chose to stay home and rebuild his relatively tattered department. Happily, three years after deciding to stay on, the House that Gates Built is as sturdy and inviting as ever...

Author: By Daniel J. Mandel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Since They Parted Ways | 11/3/2005 | See Source »

...that the “mocktails” and “mocktinis” provided at the open house will be served in foam cups supplied by the Community Health Initiative. The cups have facts and myths about alcohol consumption printed on them. According to Jones, the HoCo chose to incorporate alcohol awareness into one of the bi-weekly open houses because these events are popular with students. “We wanted to throw an event to raise awareness of the risks of excessive alcohol consumption in Mather that would be both informative...

Author: By Matthew S. Lebowitz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Mather HoCo To Address Drinking | 11/1/2005 | See Source »

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