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...love crops up repeatedly in the book's 60 lyrics, but the Boss Cupid of the title is not the chubby winged cherub of popular lore. He is something of a hooligan, "devious master of our bodies," wreaker of joy and havoc: "Love makes the cuckoo heave its foster-siblings/Out of the nest, to spatter on the ground." Pleasure is the other side of loss. In "American Boy" Gunn writes, "Expertly you know how to maintain me/At the exact degree/of hunger without starving. We produce/ What warmth...
Putting out a campus publication requires a certain amount of blustery egotism. It's no surprise that overlaps in readership and similar beats foster a certain amount of healthy competition between mags, papers, or otherwise. Previous models of the groovy train stood at the forefront of such rivalries. Flashback to last year...
Todd points out that at this particular moment in history, the sciences are the quickest route to the top--the financial top, that is. Yale may foster geniuses in French literature, he says, but shining stars in the humanities are more likely to appear later in life, while math and science whiz kids have the opportunity to make it big and flashy before the age of 30. Although both universities are known for offering excellent overall academics, he says, Stanford's traditional strength in the sciences may mean its success is sometimes more apparent, earlier...
...authorities. For 14 months, Cooke lost all contact with his family. Finally he got a call from Christiana, who had moved to California and left the children in Germany. When Cooke tried to get them back in 1995, the Germans would not allow them to be removed from their foster family. Cooke is now turning to political pressure for help. The case was one of several that prompted the U.S. Senate to chastise Germany for failure to comply with the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction...
...West Wing won a George Foster Peabody award last week, but how close is it to reality? For one, it seems to undersell the qualifications of the President's personal aide. Here's a comparison of the real and fictive right-hand lads...