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Leaders of undergraduate minority organizations and editors of campus publications are among the invited students. The retreat will address issues of campus race relations raised last spring, said Assistant Dean of Students Ellen Hatfield Towne. "Students expressed a very strong interest to continue dialoguing," she said...
...tough on a woman when the best man around is a philandering dog trainer who had to change his name to avoid creditors. MAN TROUBLE wants you to believe that it's less tough on the woman (Ellen Barkin) when the man is Jack Nicholson. But Jack is looking too creased and rusted to play a romantic lead. And the story, about predatory men from all social strata lurking in the cobwebbed corners of a modern woman's life, gets neither the zest nor the sick thrill it could use. This is an enervated, despondent entertainment -- especially if you start...
...which opened off-Broadway last week, shows how much he misses Ashman's storytelling. The two one-acts (book by Alan Brennert and lyrics by David Spencer) blend zippy tunes with cliche science fiction. A witty, upbeat song recalls how a boy fell in love with lab testing, and Ellen Greene sings gorgeous ballads. But what is this piffle about evil doctors and clones, cross-species romance and reincarnation by hologram...
Still, the creatures of the sea are uniquely vulnerable to contamination. "Fish are like sponges," explains consumer advocate Ellen Haas of Public Voice for Food and Health Policy. "They are highly susceptible to absorbing contaminants in water." Fish is the only major food group that lives and feeds in the wild. And compared with beef cattle and chickens, which eat mainly grasses and grain, many fish are high up in the food chain. In a process called biomagnification, tiny fish pick up contaminants from the plankton they feed on in polluted waters, concentrating heavy metals like methylmercury in their organs...
...time we graduated, my only connection toRadcliffe was though Coggeshall, a smalloff-campus house on Walker Street, which I sharedwith 15 other women, mostly seniors. Several ofus--Nancy Wexler, Ellen Hawkes, Susan McCrenskyand others--struggled through our theses togetherin Coggeshall's basement typing room. We wrote andrevised and polished our manuscripts as earlyLinda Ronstadt played on the radio...