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Others are hindered by the downright banal quotations included with the artists' biographies. Certainly there is nothing wrong about their sentiments--"I am not Japanese American, but I'm not American, either"--but they only slow down the greater evocative achievements of the works themselves...

Author: By Nicolas R. Rapold, | Title: Asia/America Explores Identity through Art | 2/1/1996 | See Source »

...shame that while trying to assert a good idea, namely that Democrats need to stand for something and not just against Republicans, Cerny gets lost in a swarm of reckless generalizations and downright false-hoods about the College Democrats. We would like to begin by responding to a few of them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dems Should Stick Together | 1/22/1996 | See Source »

Yale University's dispute with its graduate student teachers got downright nasty, and now it has finally ended. Members of the Graduate Employees and Students Organization (GESO) had been trying to obtain permission to unionize for several years, and some had withheld fall semester grades from undergraduate courses--until Tuesday...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: GESO's Defeat Benefits Yalies | 1/19/1996 | See Source »

...meals-per-week plan to which every Harvard student living in a dorm or house must subscribe is suffocating and downright nonsensical. Every time you don't make it to the Union or dining hall, you feel you're wasting a meal. Each time you go out to eat, you are essentially paying twice (after all, there is a well-balanced if boring meal waiting for you if you want it). After a while, everything starts to taste the same, whether it's kung-pao chicken, baron of beef or cusk (whatever the hell that...

Author: By Daniel M. Suleiman, | Title: Choice on Food | 1/5/1996 | See Source »

...OUTRAGED AT YOUR PRINTING OF Keillor's piece on Thanksgiving. I almost choked to death while eating my jellied cranberry sauce. Garrison cooked a delightful stuffing of philosophical musings, corn-pone anecdotes and downright slapstick jokes. A milestone hoot. PAT STEPHENSON Prairie Village, Kansas

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 18, 1995 | 12/18/1995 | See Source »

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