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...screaming crowds and attempted groping wherever they go, the situation on Lansdowne St. was not much different. When the doors to the show opened, there was an immediate mad crush of people clamoring to be in the front of the stage so that they might be able to grasp a touch of Morrissey's hand...

Author: By Annie K. Zaleski, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Last of the International Playboys | 2/25/2000 | See Source »

...Objective: To prove that Jacqueline Hyde, the show's vampy and schizophrenic villainness, demonstrates the Pudding's remarkable grasp of psychoanalytic complexity...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani and Christina B. Rosenberger, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: The Proof is in the Pudding | 2/25/2000 | See Source »

...addition, Iweala said she was motivated by her experience in Nigeria last summer, where she worked at her father's medical clinic. With a firmer grasp of Igbo, she plans to study abroad in Nigeria next year...

Author: By Annie Wong, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Students Start New Weekly Class in African Language | 2/22/2000 | See Source »

...scholar of ancient history will discover these words penned by a gay writer named Fenton Johnson back in 1996: "The mystery of love and life and death is really grander and more glorious than human beings can grasp, much less legislate." He will put this sentence onto a bumper sticker. The message will spread. We will realize that the sexes can't live without each other, but neither can they be joined at the hip. We will grow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Women Still Need Men? | 2/21/2000 | See Source »

...students spend 51 weeks of the year blissfully unconcerned with the council and its politics. But then we elect a president who is fundamentally an administrator without any real knowledge of how he or she has performed to date and no grasp of which candidates possess the set of skills necessary to work with the administration on behalf of students. Despite their flaws, perhaps it makes much more sense to have the council operate like other student organizations, where the members choose their own leaders based on the knowledge they gain by working alongside them all semester...

Author: By Charles C. Desimone, | Title: Back to the Drawing Board | 2/15/2000 | See Source »

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