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...asking them for advice on wooing other damsels. Sometimes he tries this on several women at the same party. Heaven forbid that any innocent lamb should be caught in this social wolf's paws. We'd like to warn our fellow Cliffies, but don't know how. Oh, Norma, fount of all wisdom, guide us. Appalled in Adams...
Only weeks after its introduction, this much-anticipated fount of sweetness has already made a dent in the life of Currier residents. Its popularity is evidenced by the high consumption rate which, according to Currier Dining Hall Supervisor Charlie Lambert,averages about 15 gallons per day. More than justproviding a tasty desert, fro-yo has affectedCurrier life in subtler ways. With names asstimulating as "Blissful Banana," "RadicalRaspberry" and "Just Peachy"--or "Simply Vanilla"for the mild at heart--the daily changing of theflavors adds extra flair to mealtimes...andbedtime. "It's better [than ice cream] forspreading on bodies," says...
...MOST EAST ASIANS, CHINA IS THEIR GREECE AND Rome: the great fount from which their civilizations sprang. Today, as China struggles to find new directions with the help of neighbors, it still expects its due in homages -- even though two recent visits to Beijing showed how hard it remains to reconcile the past and present. Emperor Akihito, the first Japanese sovereign ever to set foot in the Middle Kingdom, was constrained by domestic politics to stop short of apologizing for Imperial Japan's brutal 1931-45 occupation of much of China. Many Chinese still painfully recall the period's atrocities...
...Culture of Complaint," to be published later this year by Oxford University Press. The lectures were inspired by his unhappiness at efforts to remake U.S. school curriculums along politically correct lines. "What angers me is the herd instinct that leads people to suppose that European culture is the fount of all evils in the ^ world," says Hughes. "I don't believe...
...delusion that the business of business is to manufacture something useful, even to be something useful as a provider of jobs and community stability. Larry's insistence that business's only business is to maximize shareholder profits may be reprehensible to most people. But he's a bubbling fount of zestful zingers, nasty but never less than half truthful, and often entirely so. Most important, DeVito's Larry is the power source for Other People's Money -- a little C-cell that somehow manages to keep a handsome, reasonably pertinent but sometimes draggy movie sparking along...