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Best of luck in your current endeavor. As demonstrated by your letter, your flair for romantic imagery will take you far. Just be considerate. you may call her "possum' or "kitten"--but not "roadkill kitty" and the like...
...early grave" is only one of the outrageous assumptions about college students and food made in the course of his editorial ("Developing the Student Body," Feb. 9, 1994).The call for a university-wide fitness program and available nutritional information may indeed be a worth-while endeavor, but by setting such lofty standards for the bodies of the Harvard student body, Cucci only serves to perpetuate the anxieties of our weight-obsessed culture...
...service, an endeavor of the College,Conflict Management Inc., Conflict ManagementGroup and the Negotiations Project, will trainstudents, faculty and administrators how toimprove dialogue between disputing groups. Theaim, according to consultant Rosigliono ofConflict Management Group, is to resolve smallconflicts so they do not intensify into situationsin which administrators must intervene...
What propels a little child, sometimes just three or four, into this paramilitary life and persuades his parents to change their lives in order to support the endeavor? For one thing, the future stars tend to know right away that they can really excel at this. In Kerrigan's case, her group of 6-year-olds was still sitting on the ice waiting for the teacher to show them how to stand and glide when little Nancy began sketching spins. Skating talent - if not the persistence to perfect it - is almost always obvious...
Today almost every big-city downtown has new skyscrapers that endeavor to look like old skyscrapers. Almost every suburb has a shopping center decorated with phony arches, phony pediments, phony columns. Two decades after Venturi proposed, with the intellectual's standard perverse quasi-affection, that Vegas could be a beacon for the nation's architecture, his manifesto had transformed America. Forget the Bauhaus and your house -- it is the Vegas aesthetic, architecture as grandiose cartoon, that has become the American Establishment style. And so the splendidly pyramidal new Luxor and cubist new MGM Grand (both the work of local architect...