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Another Core course, Foreign Cultures 62,"Chinese Family, Marriage, and Kinship: A Centuryof Change," was also lotteried and occupies theeighth spot on the list with an enrollment of 366.The class examines Chinese culture and everydaylife...
This fall, according to Director of the Core Susan W. Lewis, five classes--including Foreign Cultures 62: Chiness Family, Marriage and Kinship, Literature and Arts B-71: Jazz and Science B-15: Evolutionary Biology--are limiting their numbers through lotteries...
...mention moments of high-spirited invisibility when he is simply a god. He attaches himself to two suburban American matrons, old enough to be grandmothers and self-aware enough to be deeply discontented with their outwardly settled world. They are looking for magic and miracles -- the magic of feeling kinship with all humanity, the miracles of expiation and self-forgiveness -- and in magical, miraculous, muddled and maddening India, they find both more and less than they sought...
...chat last week with talk-show empathizer Oprah Winfrey, Jackson is at heart as vulnerable as the handicapped children he generously welcomes to his ranch near Santa Barbara, California. He calls it Neverland, an allusion to his status as pop's Peter Pan. But Jackson may feel more kinship with another English outsider, John Merrick -- that sweet-souled, tragically deformed creature, the Elephant Man. "I love the story," he told Winfrey. "It reminds me of me a lot . . . It made me cry because I saw myself in the story...
...Iceman's appeal is universal. Austrians have fondly nicknamed him "Oetzi" (after the Oetztaler Alps). Thousands of people worldwide have written to express their interest or profess kinship. Some claim to have communicated with him, while several women, unaware of the Iceman's castration, have volunteered to be impregnated with his sperm. In South Tyrol, a small tourist industry, replete with T shirts, pamphlets and escorted hikes to the recovery site, is already flourishing. And proud provincial officials are planning to build a museum around the Iceman and display him in some sort of refrigerated showcase...