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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lost a tough game of four square on the playground it was the communists' fault. Did poorly in school? My teacher naturally was a Siberian exile, taking his frustrations out on an innocent American...

Author: By Johnny C. Ausiello, | Title: Cold War, Eh? | 2/16/1994 | See Source »

...only fault of the Antioch rules is they do not give first priority to the subject of alcohol. If a considerable amount of the current anger at men, especially on campus, arises from the high incidence of date rape, it is clear that an overwhelming proportion of date rapes occur when the couple have been drinking. Collegiate date rape could probably be reduced by 80% if alcohol could be removed from the picture. Camille Paglia, an intellectual gunslinger who frequently infuriates feminists, proposes common sense for young women on the subject of date rape: Don't get drunk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Men Are They Really That Bad? | 2/14/1994 | See Source »

...late ads were not the fault of his officeor Buell's McCarthy said. They were meant for theJanuary 14 Gazette, but a mistake by the office ofHuman Resources caused the original ad to appear aweek later than the requested date, he said...

Author: By Kathreen P. Lee, | Title: Expos Search Extended | 2/5/1994 | See Source »

...performance as Pfeni, who, as Sara puts it, "is on a permanent junior-year-abroad." McMurtrey is properly zany and funny as the madcap youngest sister and even makes her relationship with Geoffrey seem believable. She is less convincing when agonizing over her career but that is partly the fault of Wasserstein, who, as always, shows more interest in people's relationships to each other than in their relationship to their work...

Author: By Lori E. Smith, | Title: American Three Sisters | 2/3/1994 | See Source »

...Cartier uses the sets ably and has done a good job of staging the play--the tea scene between Gwendolen and Cecily is especially imaginative. But when such a good play is often dragged down by a plodding pace and often tepid performances it is usually the director's fault. While this production is still worth seeing (particularly for those who have never seen Earnest before and who won't know what they're missing) stronger direction might have shaken up the cast a bit more and made it a production worthy of wilde...

Author: By Lori E. Smith, | Title: Earnest Not Wilde Enough | 2/3/1994 | See Source »

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