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...affair with Baryshnikov, 31, or at the very least had deep "artistic differences" with him. Whatever the reasons, ballerina and director were far from the harmony of past pas de deux. "Misha got tired of running a kindergarten," said one observer at A.B.T. Kirkland's booking agent, Alex Dube, conceded that the dancer's conduct was "unprofessional" but asked, "Is that news? She has canceled numerous performances before. But when she comes out onstage she is a miracle." Nevertheless, the miracle on opening night was Kirkland's replacement, Susan Jaffe, 18, who debuted with the company...
...exists, there is no question that the youths have captured Soweto-partly on their own, partly because their elders failed to lead. And the townships will never be the same. True, some aspects of the old Soweto still exist: the neatly kept gardens of middle-class black homes; the Dube Lawn Bowls Association, whose members still gather every Sunday in their English whites; the Zionists, an Africanized Christian sect, famous for their daylong religious dances that begin at prayer services in backyard tents on Saturday nights...
Applicants who don't get such an obvious chance to display their manhood probably find the committee's decisions a little more arbitrary. Gregory S. Dube '76, who is applying from Maine, says, "the tales [of interviews] have planted the seeds of trepidation in my mind, but I think the interview process is probably the fairest way to do it--if you can't take the interview you probably won't like the other Rhodes scholars, since the committee members are pretty representative." Dube is fairly optimistic about his chances for at least the state nomination, but he shrugs...
Stephen S.J. Hall, vice president for administration, said yesterday if Dube's report "had any logic in it," he will probably accept its recommendations...
...checkers in the House dining halls could be convinced to check cards all the time, instead of checking off people on personal recognizance, then the cheating problem would be largely solved. Dube said, but he added he does not think the checkers can be convinced...