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...vicious cycle is at work: traditional departments such as History and Biology seem to be waiting to take their cue from a central program before creating more gender-related courses. At the same time, the women's studies committee cannot attract top scholars without proving that the University is committed to the field...
...years ago was nowhere near as different from the Harvard of today as the outside world then was from that of today. At Harvard we learned the history of Western Europe from Frisky Merriman, always impeccably dressed with a carnation in his button-hole and a billiard cue in his hand serving as a pointer. We learned about paintings from George Edgell of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and we produced foul-smelling compounds in the Mallinckrodt Laboratory. In fact, we learned a great many things from many professors but possibly more from our friends and classmates...
...Secretary Hu Yaobang estimates that by next year nearly 2 million bureaucrats will have retired. About 800 top people will be replaced in May and June. And next September, the Communist Party's Central Committee will probably be enlarged to bring in about a hundred younger members. Taking the cue, Party Secretary Hu, 69, has hinted at his choice for his own successor: Hu Qili, 55, now a high-ranking member of the party secretariat...
...Taking a cue from the old, familiar "I'd like to buy the world a Coke" theme. Pepsi bought the world a superstar. And ever since Michael Jackson and Lionel Ritchie have been plugging Pepsi on TV to starry-eyed youngsters, sales have been...
...perspectives and stories, but such an approach remains hard to transfer to a production by students, especially those restricted in both time and experience. The script does not develop the characters; it assumes their previous formation, and the actors in this production seem forced to bear their souls on cue, drawing on little consonant with the runaway experience...