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...Faculty of Arts and Sciences as they are on the wall's of Sal's Famous Pizzeria. For another life will still be a little lonely over in Afro-Am, despite the arrival of Gates and the crew of new junior faculty that may be on the horizon. It is, after all, the development of a solid, permanent faculty that would best serve Afro-Am. One-semester stints with stars are nice; long-term academic commitment is better...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Afro-Am Did the Right Thing | 3/18/1991 | See Source »

That joyful scene was staged amid the ruins of what had been a gleaming metropolis. It was backlighted by towering orange flames on the horizon where hundreds of oil wells, torched by fleeing Iraqis, continued to burn and block the midday sun with huge curtains of dense black smoke. The eerie pall was a visible symbol of the dark ordeal Kuwait had lived through during the Iraqi occupation and a final, horrifying week of murder, kidnapping and destruction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kuwait: Free at Last! Free at Last! | 3/11/1991 | See Source »

...take it down because members of the Jewish community have unfortunately and simplistically chosen to frame my individual protest as an expression of the entire Black community, indicating that interethnic conflict looms over the horizon if I do not take it down...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: An Act of Sensitivity | 3/6/1991 | See Source »

According to local legend, the Grand Tetons were so named by fur trappers who hadn't seen any women for the duration of their expedition. The horny men came upon the mountain range and immediately decided that the peaks on the horizon resembled "Grand Tetons"--French for "big breasts." This leads to the unfortunate incidence of women buying souvenier T-shirts which read--you guessed it--"Grand Tetons" in large letters across the chest. So much for class...

Author: By Ira E. Stoll, | Title: Buffalo Galore | 3/5/1991 | See Source »

When Gurganus, who studied painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts as well as writing at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, reaches over the broad cultural horizon, we get the satiric sampler America Competes. The piece is an inspired and deftly arranged exchange of imaginary nut letters from folks eager to win a "National Fundament of the Arts" grant. The theme, "America, Where Have You Come From, Where Are You Bound?," is to be realized on the wall of a Washington office building. A Phoenix man thinks his father's handmade place-mat menus would be appropriate. Handicrafters from Ocala...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Home Folks: WHITE PEOPLE by Allan Gurganus | 3/4/1991 | See Source »

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