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...from a conscious, open acknowledgment that to be postmodern is also to be post-Marxist. In a time when people rise and fall freely, unhindered by traditional class structures, they become, according to Leigh, quite unhinged by their inability to locate themselves morally or emotionally on a sturdy social ladder...
...what a wondrous string it is. As Watson and Crick discovered in 1953, DNA consists of a double helix, resembling a twisted ladder with sidepieces made of sugar and phosphates and closely spaced connecting rungs. Each rung is called a base pair because it consists of a pair of complementary chemicals called nitrogenous bases, attached end to end, either adenine (A) joined to thymine (T) or cytosine (C) attached to guanine...
...seniors Morrissey, Liz Reynolds, Martha Berkman--the number-nine seed who went undefeated this year--and Louise Zonis will depart, a strong line of successors follows. Freshmen Brooke Bailey and Mary Greenhill, sophomore Daphne Onderdonk and junior Grace Sheffield will return to comprise that "strong nucleus" on the squash ladder...
...contrast between Moscow's splash and Washington's plodding was reinforced by the rhetoric on both sides. While Shevardnadze warned that the Middle East "could be climbing the unpredictable ladder of nuclear escalation," Secretary of State James Baker asserted in a television interview, "I don't think it's ((an area)) that if it incubates further, it blows up." Somewhat testily, Bush also applied the brakes: "I don't want to be stampeded by the fact that the Soviet Foreign Minister takes a trip to the Middle East." Though he praised Shevardnadze's trip as a "good thing," the President...
...Captains Jenny Holleran and Sheila Morrissey are the only members of the team to be seeded. Holleran will be playing at number five, while Morrissey is eight on the intercollegiate ladder. They are the number-one and two players on the Harvard team...