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...initial goal of Radcliffe in 1879 was to give women a Harvard education. But for the last 15 years, Harvard has taken on that task itself. Much of undergraduate life here, and at other formerly all-male universities, has become completely co-educational. Parents now send both daughters and sons off to college, and the days of graduating with a "MRS" degree are fading...
MANY Radcliffe alumnae and administrators would like the college to reverse this trend away from undergraduates. Although Harvard is co-educational, these people believe there are still ways that Radcliffe can act as a support group for undergraduate women...
Selassie, an economics concentrator who is also co-president of the Harvard-Radcliffe African Students Asociation, said he was "pleasantly surprised" by the results...
...Brazilian equivalent of the American Deep South, African tribal dances are blended with European sounds to create the insistent samba; the afoxe, associated with the Afro-Roman Catholic Candomble religion; and the chugging, accordion-dominated forro, which blends African rhythms with Portuguese folk music. Says U.S. guitarist Arto Lindsay, co-producer with Peter Scherer of the latest album by an eminent Brazilian performer, Caetano Veloso: "In Bahia and the north you find the purest African rhythms, some of the most innovative in Brazil." Notes Byrne: "Bahia may be to Brazil what New Orleans was as the birthplace of jazz...
...thicket of state insurance laws makes it possible in some cases for private insurers to find ways to keep profits up and payments for AIDS care down. In 1985 one firm, the Great Republic Insurance Co., even issued an "AIDS profile" to its agents, instructing them to treat differently applications from "single males without dependents that are engaged in occupations that do not require physical exertion." These applicants were usually denied insurance. While such major insurers as Blue Cross/Blue Shield and the Travelers deny discriminating on the basis of AIDS, others still use information about living arrangements, residences...