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...terms, consolidating an eclectic mix of contemporary sounds with old-fashioned catches in the throat, tinkles of the mandolin, sugary sobs and vertiginous swoops of pedal steel guitar. This generation's performers are the first bred on both rock and country who are consciously choosing Nashville, as Vince Gill did when he turned down a chance to join the rock group Dire Straits in favor of continuing his country career...
Associate Dean of the Faculty for AffirmativeAction Marjorie Garber and Dean for StudentAffairs of the Graduate School of Arts andSciences Margot N. Gill were presented the reportto the council. It describes the number and typesof sexual harassment cases that were reported tothe Faculty in the 1990-91 academic year...
...Leslie Clark, 63, salmon fishing was a birthright -- a livelihood that has sustained four generations of his family. As a boy he learned from his father and grandfather the art of casting vast gill nets on the teeming waters of the Columbia River. After years of practice, he says, "you understand the fish and his ways. You know what he's going to do before...
...unyielding concrete. But even the staunchest fish advocates realize that the June hogs are gone forever and the dams are here to stay. Biologists are optimistic, however, that a strong recovery plan can bring other salmon species back from the brink within 20 years. Leslie Clark, the third-generation gill netter, is willing to put his beloved livelihood on hold to achieve that end. "Fishing has been good to us," he says. "But watching these fantastic fish go down to little or nothing has been very sad. If you depend on a resource, you've got to take care...
...victims is long, but the names matter less than the grounds for their execution. Like all good essayists, she was basically a moralist, sketching types of irresponsible privilege (Schiff), proprietary righteousness (Betty Friedan), oracular emptiness (Theodore White), poses of profundity (Gail Sheehy) and head-over-heels self-infatuation (Brendan Gill...