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...most devious part of it all is that they're suckering the first years, who make up the majority of the enrollment in these classes. The poor kids won't even know what hit 'em...

Author: By Jennifer L. Burns, | Title: I Want My Reading Period | 5/5/1997 | See Source »

Most of the articles we run about love end with some upbeat, go-get-'em suggestion, a new plan to invigorate Harvard social life. I, unfortunately, have no such suggestion. The problem is much larger than Harvard and much deeper than most realize. Indeed, I do not know if love is salvageable for us. Surely many of us will mature and eventually marry, maybe even to someone we love; but many of us will not, and even more will do so unsuccessfully. No, love is going downhill and picking up speed, and I do not have a solution. I only...

Author: By Thomas B. Cotton, | Title: Love's End | 5/5/1997 | See Source »

David's virulently racist family cannot reconcile themselves to knowing that he was in love with what they call a "yellow whore." Ozzie, disturbed by his son's serious relationship with Zung, spitefully proclaims at one point: "They got diseases...he touched 'em. That's disgusting," and later says that David just wanted to have "little, bitty, Chinky kids." Harriet says, in a disturbingly soft, coddling tone, of Vietnamese people, "Their poor funny little faces...Human faces weren't meant to look like that.... It is our triumph, our whiteness...

Author: By Mary-beth A. Muchmore, | Title: When Johnny Comes Marching Home | 4/17/1997 | See Source »

Nevertheless, the association is promulgating a code that prohibits its 1,000 member HMOs from enforcing gag rules and employing such practices as drive-by mastectomies, on pain of being kicked out. In what looks like an if-you-can't-lick-'em-join-'em move, the association has even announced support for Clinton's panel. Pisano hopefully predicts a "thoughtful" study--leading, presumably, to mild recommendations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BACKLASH AGAINST HMOS | 4/14/1997 | See Source »

...your home to read meters just as they did in 1935?" asks Enron spokesman Mark Palmer. Enron is putting its money where its boasts are: gearing up for wireless metering and building a billing center near Columbus, Ohio, with the capacity to produce statements for no fewer than--count 'em--30 million customers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POWER TO THE PEOPLE | 3/10/1997 | See Source »

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