Word: color
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Myers said the program is needed because the practice of law is different from the law school experience. "Women and people of color, who may have unique issues to address, benefit greatly from relationships with graduates who can advise them based on the alumnae's experiences and perspectives," she said. "I wish it existed when I was a student...
...editorial, "Yale Wins Either Way," (Sept. 16) Daniel M. Suleiman '99 writes that the "Yale Five" (five Orthodox students who are threatening suit against Yale for the right to live off campus) "are tacitly judging all of their classmates" and are averse "to modern people of any religion, color or creed, including other Jews...
...they are tacitly judging all of their classmates who can, in good conscience, live with members of the opposite sex in adjacent rooms, because they refuse to live anywhere near them. They have not singled out a particular group; instead, their aversion is to modern people of any religion, color or creed, including other Jews. The Yale Five's unease results from their peers. And Yale has said for the time being that such an aversion is unacceptable...
...with--tough, canny realists who can follow a tangled thread to daylight. Well, hmmm, daylight. There's not much of that in L.A. Confidential. It's a movie of shadows and half lights, the best approximation of the old black-and-white noir look anyone has yet managed on color stock. But it's no idle exercise in style. The film's look suggests how deep the tradition of police corruption runs. And that, paradoxically, makes it as outrageous (and outraging) as tomorrow's headlines will surely...
These tales are more satirical than sentimental. In Someone to Talk To, a journalist who won't stop gabbing about himself long enough to ask a question is worthy of Evelyn Waugh. In Across the Lake, naive young Americans look for local color in an unnamed strife-torn country that could be Guatemala. Their detachment from reality echoes Paul Bowles' brutal stories of hapless adventurers...