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...fellowship, awarded by the Visual and Environmental Studies (VES) department to concentrators in VES, English, Philosophy, or Anthropology, is intended to "provide stipends for a year's travel during which, it is hoped, recipients will reflect on their undergraduate life in the context of a wider horizon...
...fellowship, awarded by the Visual and Environmental Studies (VES) department to concentrators in VES, English, Philosophy, or Anthropology, is intended to "provide stipends for a year's travel during which, it is hoped, recipients will reflect on their undergraduate life in the context of a wider horizon...
...exclusion of women is, in this context, immoral and unacceptable. Many women say they would never want to join a final club. Instead, they simply want the clubs abolished--a natural reaction by those who are barred. Many others, especially members of the final clubs, simply accept the clubs' exclusionary system with little question...
Double standards and badgering, a number of Harris and Klebold friends say, helped drive them to bombs and bullets. No one is suggesting that getting picked on is an excuse for committing mass murder, but they call it the context for Harris and Klebold's rage. "Did they snap? I think they snapped a bunch of times," says Brooks Brown. "Every time someone slammed them against a locker and threw a bottle at them, I think they'd go back to Eric or Dylan's house and plot a little more--at first as a goof, but more and more...
...plays--works with imaginative ambition, a social context, plots--still exist, however, and two have arrived to end Broadway's season with a flourish. Amy's View has been dismissed, somewhat patronizingly, as a vehicle for Judi Dench, fresh from her Oscar for Shakespeare in Love. As Esme, the self-centered actress whose relationship with her daughter (Samantha Bond) deteriorates over the years, Dench is indeed a marvel, as impressive for what she doesn't do as what she does. This is no scenery-chewing cartoon of a theatrical grand dame but a tightly controlled and utterly convincing portrait...