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...roles we dance," says Mary Carmen Catoya, a Venezuelan with Miami City Ballet, "to seduce the audience a little more, make our eyes talk a little more, use a little more of our bodies." The Latin men, who didn't grow up with the mystique of machismo for nothing, exert a commanding presence on the stage. They have become even more prominent than their female compatriots. The U.S. hasn't trained enough top-flight male dancers to stock its companies, so there are plenty of openings...
...about a decade under Bok’s 20-year tenure, the Harvard campus played host to student marches, sit-ins, and once, a shantytown that was erected outside University Hall—all efforts to prod Harvard into selling its holdings tied to South Africa.But Bok wanted to exert pressure on companies in other ways, such as through shareholder resolutions.While he objected to “sweeping prohibitions” on investments, Bok suggested in one open letter to the Harvard community that divestment could be justified in extreme circumstances where the investments “work in significant...
...most part hamstrung by a lack of space and resources, should be encouraged to work with the women’s center and help plan social programming that might stem from it. Well-backed male institutions do not need Harvard’s help to exist and exert influence. Meanwhile, their female counterparts struggle to compete even with co-ed student groups, which do have the College’s endorsement. While the principles behind the College’s policy of not recognizing single-sex organizations is sound, in effect, it sets women students back. Women should...
...proposal was one of three plans outlined by the Faculty Council to ensure that professors exert substantial power in the appointment of outgoing Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby’s successor...
...with Chile's good diplomatic and economic ties with the United States that have been maintained by her fellow Socialist Lagos. In the meantime, Chile, whether under a Bachelet or a Pi?era administration, is likely to want to improve often tense relations with Bolivia-and in the process perhaps exert a moderating influence on the Morales presidency. -By Crist?bal Edwards/Santiago...