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...book clubs, however, are informal, private affairs, chautauquas in a bottle. Sometimes aided by bookstore "liaisons," who often sell them books at a discount and may even provide a meeting space, these do-it-yourself salons offer a literary booster shot for people nostalgic for dorm-room bull sessions. Laura Srebnik, 42, is a New York City policy analyst whose group meets once a month. "I love it," she says. "I believe you have to set up situations where you can think about larger principles." A high-powered book club in Washington, started by Kenneth Brody, the former president...
...Laura Dahmen, Claudia Asano, Holly Rogers, Chris Shortsleeve and Liz Schoyer scored for Harvard, and Keren Gudeman picked up an assist...
...Ellen episode--filmed over two consecutive Fridays last month amid an atmosphere that seemed half party, half support group--an old college friend (male) comes on to Ellen, who slowly realizes that she is attracted to the friend's female colleague, played by Laura Dern, a close friend of DeGeneres' in real life (a description that should not be read into). Oprah Winfrey, in a surprisingly droll and low-key performance, plays Ellen's therapist. A whole flock of other celebrities--also friends of DeGeneres', including Demi Moore, Melissa Etheridge, k.d. lang and Billy Bob Thornton--showed their support...
...Laura S. Kang '99 says she sees nothing wrong with the AAMC's definition of minority. "If a minority is well-represented in a particular field, spending time and energy to recruit this minority...is a twisted manipulation of the term," she says...
...paper without any letterhead or other identifying characteristics. Just the date and your initials." Writes Reich: "Now I have my own loop." But of course, he didn't really. At one point, Reich describes waiting in a small anteroom outside the Oval Office with economic advisers Robert Rubin, Laura D'Andrea Tyson and Gene Sperling, only to learn from CNN that Clinton had fired chief of staff Mack McLarty. "Our distress has nothing to do with the merits of the decision...What's so galling is that the decisions were made without any of us having a clue...At this...