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Dates: during 1990-1999
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As long as admissions and hiring preferences favor Blacks on the basis of race, can Blacks ever escape the gnawing uncertainty over whether they would still have gotten in had they been white? In 1985, Derek Bok stated that if admissions were colorblind, only I percent of Harvard's entering...

Author: By Daniel Choi, | Title: The Shady Legacy of Affirmative Action | 3/10/1995 | See Source »

When Axel and Elaine break up, their fighting is filmed obscurely from outside and the pouring rain renders their screams indecipherable. The scene is frustrating in its escape of the challenges of acting and dialogue.

Author: By Marco M. Spino, | Title: 'Arizona' Dreamin' Of a Hipper Movie | 3/9/1995 | See Source »

"Homer tells us that the child gods are timeless and unchanging," writes Solomon in his thesis-setting prologue, "The Myth of the Eternal Child." "In the course of time, however, Mozart's physical appearance began to diverge from the world's image of him. It was as though the grown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MYTH OF THE DIVINE CHILD | 3/6/1995 | See Source »

The slaughter was swift and sure. After prisoners at Serkadji, Algiers' Alcatraz, used sharpened metal bed slats to slit the throats of four guards and attempted a mass escape, government security forces--the Ninjas, as they are called--swept into the prison. When they were done with their work, at...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Algeria: THE PRISON OF BLOOD | 3/6/1995 | See Source »

Pulp drags you along in its aimless, stream-of-conscious storytelling, a slip-shod version of Catcher in the Rye. Its central character, Jimi Banks, graduates from college and, overburdened with a lost love and a friend's suicide, turns himself into a cheap-thrill escape artist. He seeks to...

Author: By Judy E. Dutton, | Title: `Technicolor' Loser Nothing More Than Pulp | 3/3/1995 | See Source »

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