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...vicious and mystifying attack brought to the fore the issue of safety for all athletes, particularly those in sports featuring individual competition in an atmosphere of relative openness and civility. The TV pictures of Kerrigan weeping and grimacing in pain were eerily familiar. Only last April, there were similar shots of tennis whiz Monica Seles, who was stabbed in the back in the midst of a match by a virulent fan of her rival, Steffi Graf. Seles has yet to return to competition. Her attacker was tried and freed on probation...
...standing faculty committee on Expository Writing meets just once a year. That leaves keeping a full-time eye on Expos to Dean for Under-graduate Education Lawrence Buell, who has yet to show himself capable of doing the job. We'd like to see a more active role fore students and faculty--such as former UCLA writing program head and Robinson Professor of Celtic Languages and Literatures Patrick K. Ford, in the administration and oversight of Expos...
...longest. But Angels has been hugely significant. More than any other work in a theater era of gay self-assertion, it has brought that perspective to the mainstream. Angels was not only the first gay-centered play to win the Pulitzer Prize for drama, it came to the fore just as the argument about gays in the military was putting the gay cause at center stage for the first time in U.S. history. With its aggressive scorn for Ronald Reagan and Republicanism; for Mormons and moralizing; and its demonic view of lawyer- dealmaker Roy Cohn, a gay-bashing closet...
...first race for Harvard's freshmen, the Crimson's young blood came to the fore. Freshman Karen Goetze finished first overall, covering the five-kilometer course...
...should not be lightly considered, since armed intervention could end the humanitarian aid effort that is keeping hundreds of thousands of Bosnians alive. But having schooled the Serbs for so long in the idea that it is unwilling to translate threat into action, the West, with Clinton at the fore, faces the crunch: talk of force in Bosnia has cheapened to worthlessness, leaving force itself the only effective option. The prospect for freedom and peace in Bosnia -- and in the Bosnias waiting to happen elsewhere -- demands no less...