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...woman. Yes, Harvard has stated that it wishes to integrate diverse groups, but its main goal is to educate the most talented individuals--talent, according to its own definition. Harvard is a private university and has established its own criterion for admission in order to make itself distinct from other schools such as CalTech, Dartmouth, or M.I.T...
Over the past several years, the women's Beanpot hockey tournament has taken on a distinct pattern...
...favorite son for Southerners. He is pursuing a risky strategy that has failed others who gave short shrift to Iowa and New Hampshire. But 1988 has its own dynamics. With such a diffuse and crowded field and a chance that the early votes will be splintered, there is a distinct advantage to having a regional base, especially if no one else does. Gore's base helped him enter the new year with nearly $2.4 million in ready campaign cash, second only to Michael Dukakis among Democrats. Consultant Bob Squier calls Gore's ability to build a regional support system...
...origins of the Hollywood junket are shrouded in the dim mysteries of the past, but in its most recent incarnations it has become a fusion of two distinct traditions. The first of these traditions is the expense account, by which the wealth of the nation is funneled out of the hands of the worker via the conduit of large corporations and is then frittered away by hedonistically juvenile executives. The second tradition is that of the star schmooze, in which second string critics from minor newspapers in unimportant cities have lunch with celebrities while asking questions like, "So, what...
Frank Gehry's buildings are still self-conscious and perverse, but they no longer set out to disturb. Tranquillity and polish are now permitted. For a lakeside guesthouse in Wayzata, Minn., Gehry has created a kind of mixed-media outdoor sculpture. Each room is a distinct object: the living-dining room is a central tower, a bedroom is a curve of local stone, and so on. The forms are vaguely toylike (befitting rooms intended to house the visiting children and grandchildren of the owners), or like the extraterrestrial outpost of puckish, inventive earthlings...