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...then, I ask, is victory bittersweet? According to the June edition of Harper's magazine, "women now make up 56 percent of students at America's colleges and universities," an increase that experts predict by 2007 will have women earning 200,000 more B.A.'s than men. Our class may not be in keeping with the trend yet, but we're gaining...
...then, I ask, is victory bittersweet? According to the June edition of Harper's magazine, "women now make up 56 percent of students at America's colleges and universities," an increase that experts predict by 2007 will have women earning 200,000 more B.A.'s than men. Our class may not be in keeping with the trend yet, but we're gaining...
What is happening here? For better or worse, an institutional drug culture has sprung up in the hallways of All-American High, mimicking the one already established among depressed adults. As was pointed out in the May issue of Harper's magazine, the line between illicit, feel-good drugs such as marijuana and amphetamines and legal mood-altering substances such as Luvox, Wellbutrin, and Effexor is a blurry one. Many of the same optimistic claims--enhanced concentration, decreased anxiety, a renewed capacity for feeling pleasure--are made for both types of magic bullet, whether they are bought on the street...
DIED. ELIZABETH ("LIZ") TILBERIS, 51, editor of Harper's Bazaar; of ovarian cancer; in New York City. After rising from intern to editor in chief of British Vogue, the Manchester-born Tilberis took the helm at Hearst's Harper's Bazaar in 1992. She quickly turned the sluggish magazine into an important arbiter of style. Known for her grace and decency in a famously cutthroat business, Tilberis campaigned for cancer awareness in the pages of Bazaar and in a 1998 memoir, No Time...
...been an up and down year for Shakespeare. On the downside, his very identity remains in question. Harper's Magazine this month produced an entire issue on the question of "Is Shakespeare Really Shakespeare?" To those of you wondering who he might be if he's not himself, there is a sizeable group of fans of the Earl of Oxford who claim that a country guy from Stratford couldn't possibly have written all that good stuff. Oxford, on the other hand, though he died before the believed publication dates of several of the plays, was an aristocrat supposedly better...