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...walked to the beach on Sunday morning. The snow made a wide lateral strip at the top, and where it stopped, the sand, brown and wet, continued to the lip of the ocean. I suppose the tide washing ashore made that portion of the sand too warm and moist to sustain the covering of snow, so half the beach was snow and the other half sand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ONLY DISCONNECT | 2/24/1997 | See Source »

...Although there are ways, such as sign language or lip reading, of making human speech accessible to people with hearing impairments," Lewis says, "I do not know of any ways of accomplishing this for music...

Author: By Molly Hennessy-fiske, | Title: A Music Appreciator | 2/22/1997 | See Source »

...worked? Has Harvard succeeded in providing its students with the most diverse atmosphere possible? Unfortunately, the answer is no. Race relations and inter-communication on this campus are in a pitiful state. The time has come for students, student groups and the administration to do more than just pay lip service to the idea of diversity; they must replace empty rhetoric with action...

Author: By William D. Zerhouni, | Title: You Can Talk the Talk, But... | 2/11/1997 | See Source »

...that matter. The liberal doctrine asserts that we must recognize the historical racial injustice in this country and that we must be good citizens on the question of race by never challenging government programs or so-called minority leaders, by going along to assuage our own guilt, by paying lip service to our ideals in order to make ourselves feel better. But neither of these doctrines move to solve the problems of race that we have in this country. The predominant conservative doctrine talks much of what it wants to destroy but very little about what it wants...

Author: By William D. Zerhouni, | Title: You Can Talk the Talk, But... | 2/11/1997 | See Source »

...last month at 64. Gentry's nephew Dan Westfall, a theater performer, inherited the pair and built a facility on his property to house them. The scene-stealing siblings were in more than 15 Tarzan movies, and as a specialty, Westfall says, "Jiggs would always grin with his upper lip above his mouth.'' In retirement, Jiggs has become an artist--a simian Grandpa Moses--and sales of his paintings are to fund the Cheeta Project, a non-profit foundation that will aid other chimps and keep Jiggs on his daily diet of fruit, Purina Monkey Chow and the occasional Oreo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Feb. 10, 1997 | 2/10/1997 | See Source »

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