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Everything I am studying seems important, and every week the assigned books jump off the shelf in their brilliance and importance. The past two weeks alone encompassed Virgil's Aeneid, Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, W.E.B. DuBois' The Souls of Black Folk and Frank Norris' The Octopus. I am even looking forward to reviewing for my oral exam this May, because the process will give me the chance to re-read and reconsider great books...
Moderated by Board of Overseers President Renee M. Landers '77, who works in the general counsel's office of the Department of Health and Human Services, the panel will feature Sydney Jones, executive director of Human Rights Watch/Asia Watch; Harriet Rabb, general counsel of HHS; Robert Reichauer, a senior fellow of economic studies at the Brookings Institution; and Barry Zuckerman, head of pediatrics at Boston City Hospital...
...young indulging in pot these days are mostly the children of the baby boomers, who, once upon a time in the '60s, took to reefer as their recreational sacrament, their generation's almost universal drug of defiance. Now the boomers, who were raised on episodes of Ozzie and Harriet (and, if anything, identified with David and Ricky), find, to their astonishment, that they themselves have become Ozzie and Harriet: middle-aged! Parents! Conventional! It is a discomfiting transition, as if former members of a Dionysus cult were asked to take up duties as parole officers. The boomers raised hell with...
BORN: March 29, 1942, Humboldt EDUCATION: U of South Dakota, B.A., 1964; Harvard U, M.A., J.D. 1971 FAMILY: Wife, Harriet; one stepchild RELIGION: Roman Catholic MILITARY: Army, 1966-68 OCCUPATION: Lawyer POLITICAL CAREER: U.S. House, 1975-78; U.S. Senate, 1978- ADDRESS: 600 South Main Avenue, Suite 100, Sioux Falls...
...tragedy. But what has replaced this cultural item is not much more attractive. It is, in a sense, the ideal of the unideal. The assumption behind television sitcoms contemporaneous with Vertigo was that the husbands and wives--in such shows as Father Knows Best and The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet--were perfect for each other. They had their ideal mates; that's why they were married. The assumption behind current shows like Friends and Seinfeld is that perfection is a sometime thing and that anybody may be meant for anybody else. That's why the characters are not married...