Word: color
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...breath of fresh air when we encounter seriousness in modern music. We're baffled by a singer who believes there is truth in what she sings. We are utterly mystified when confronted with a theme other than teen euphoria or angst. And so Janice Robinson's debut album, The Color Within Me, may well be, unabashedly, the subject of our confusion. Robinson's rock/pop, soul/gospel/funk roots fuse together to produce a sound that blends the mainstream appeal of Alanis Morrisette ,the groovy danceablity of Bob Marley and a deep and penetrating message similar to that of Arrested Development. The album...
...much better, for instance, the public school and housing systems would be--if Harvard had to pay annual taxes commensurate with its vast financial and property holdings. Most disturbing, however, is the fact that a solid majority of the lowest paid workers at Harvard are people of color, immigrants and parents. These men and women are struggling to make ends meet in a society that continues to dismantle basic guarantees of justice and decency even as the rich and the poor grow increasingly unrecognizable to each other. At Harvard, where words like "diversity," "equality" and "civility" are tossed around...
...fact, sacred; each specimen is checked for sperm count, diseases and the like. Furthermore, as with any commodity in a free market, some sperm are more equal than others. To that elitist end, each donor must fill out a tedious, two-page questionnaire with questions like: Hair color? Straight hair, curly or wavy? Eye color? Left-handed or right-handed? Jewish ancestry? College? Major? High school? Family illnesses or health issues related to incest? Then I filled out a Mendelian race tree, delineating the race of my grandparents on down. The last question on the sheet, I had to save...
...Undergraduate ID cards may all look the same, but the Harvard ID comes in many colors. Wamback informs us that there are no fewer than five major color schemes...
...best they've ever had taken (and we know several), you can get your very own copy in a wide variety of digital image formats (JPEG, GIF, Targa, PCX, BMP or TIFF), or you can have the ID folks print you a copy. It will not be in color and won't look very good. To get a copy of your picture, bring a high-density diskette (PC-formatted, unformatted, or PC-formatted Zip disk) to the ID office, or call and ask them to e-mail it to you as a MIME attachment. For more information...