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...readers are left wondering just how deep Ellis' empathy runs. Last week Ellis, an icon on the South Hadley, Mass., campus of Mount Holyoke College, where he has taught for the past 29 years, was exposed as an inventor of his own world of imaginative appeal. For several years Ellis has been using tales from his days as a platoon leader and paratrooper in Vietnam to help animate his popular course Vietnam War and American Culture. As his fame increased, Ellis began sharing his war stories with journalists and colleagues. The problem is that Ellis never served in Vietnam...
...give a spot to Susan? That's the question before a roomful of admissions officers at Mount Holyoke College. Susan, who has top grades and gushing recommendations, could surely prosper here. But what more, they wonder, would she bring to this cozy all-women's college in South Hadley, Mass.? Giulietta Aquino, Susan's advocate on the six-member committee, ticks off a few of her accomplishments. She is a decorated horseback rider aiming for the Olympics who commutes three hours a day between her home, school and horse barn but still finds time to tutor immigrant children and work...
...give a spot to Susan? That's the question before a roomful of admissions officers at Mount Holyoke College. Susan, who has top grades and gushing recommendations, could surely prosper here. But what more, they wonder, would she bring to this cozy all-women's college in South Hadley, Mass.? Giulietta Aquino, Susan's advocate on the six-member committee, ticks off a few of her accomplishments. She is a decorated horseback rider aiming for the Olympics who commutes three hours a day between her home, school and horse barn but still finds time to tutor immigrant children and work...
...Europe has no choice but to shoulder more responsibility for the Balkans and operations like it. Powell has given a muted blessing to the E.U.?s new defense force, ?so long as it strengthens nato, and does not weaken nato?; and one influential Bush adviser, Stephen Hadley, has written that the U.S. should give Europe ?breathing space? to develop its defense identity. As it hands off more of the load to the Europeans, the Administration won?t hesitate to harangue the E.U. about its military deficiencies. ?If we?re not careful, this thing will be all architecture and no troops...
...surrounding me--Amherst is Emily Dickinson's hometown and also a famous seat of learning in New England, with the presence of Amherst College, Hampshire College and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, not to mention Smith College down the road in Northampton and Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley. How could a few citizens of this traditionally liberal enclave have made such a crushingly wrong decision, based on a fundamental misunderstanding, by canceling the free expression of a classic musical which still has a great deal to teach...