Word: houstonize
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Even in the era when Harvard would only admit a few token black students, the University nurtured some of the greatest African-American scholars, such as W.E.B. Du Bois and Charles Hamilton Houston. However, Harvard has certainly come a long way from the day when Du Bois (the first black student to earn a Harvard Ph.D.) was forced to live off campus. Today, black academics not only study at Harvard--they also hold tenure. Harvard's Du Bois Institute is the nation's premier institution for research in Afro-American studies...
...WATT of Everything but the Girl, the winningly unprepossessing British duo whose single Missing is nudging Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston in the singles charts, success is fun but not essential. "It's thrilling to have a pop hit," says Watt. "But I'd got used to our life as an underground band." Not surprising, since he and TRACEY THORN have been recording since 1982. In 1992, when Watt nearly died of Churg-Strauss syndrome, an autoimmune disease that can affect the lungs and intestines, they reassessed everything. One result: Missing. Now the album's moving too, but Watt...
...rescue has come Robert Wilson, the avant-garde theater artist whose gorgeous new staging of Four Saints at the Houston Grand Opera gives new life to Thomson's hothouse flower. The production, which runs through the end of this week and will be seen this summer at the new Lincoln Center Festival in New York City, is the perfect marriage of director and subject. Stein's wordplay and Thomson's homespun music are direct antecedents of such minimalist classics as Wilson's 1969 The Life and Times of Sigmund Freud and the 1976 Wilson--Philip Glass opera Einstein...
Pentagon efforts to keep the number of U.S. troops in Bosnia below 20,000 are raising eyebrows on Capitol Hill. Lawmakers are discovering that an army of civilians, contracted privately, has been deployed to augment the G.I.s. Brown & Root Inc., a Houston engineering firm, will supervise Balkan workers on projects like building pipelines and sewerage systems and is prepared to undertake the solemn task of readying the bodies of U.S. fatalities for shipment home. The Army's increasing dependence on civilian help is leading penny pinchers to wonder whether it is still necessary to budget $7 billion annually...
Well, the time has finally come and no one knows what to expect, but odds are it will definitely be exciting. So play it Hammer, and let's get it started.CrimsonE. Houston WuForward TOMMY HOLMES sheilds the puck with his body...