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...Foundation itself hosts three main annual events: a spring intercultural film festival, a conference on minorities in science and Cultural Rhythms--a musical and dance festival in February...
...bathroom locks do not provide a solution to the true problem--that entrance through the main doors of the dorms is just too easy. Yard Facilities Manager Merle A. Bicknell performed an unscientific test of security, gaining access to all first-year dorms without either identification or a key. Students should certainly keep closer watch on who's walking into their dorms behind them, but a more tangible solution might be to provide all students with universal key-card access. No longer would students assume that someone being let in is a fellow undergraduate without...
...played one of the leading roles of The Joy Luck Club, said that last year, TV Guide picked up on a trend in television: shows that featured strong girls as their main characters. Other magazines, such as Time, ran stories about the trend, too, and now TV Guide wants to follow up on its discovery with a cover story titled "Nickelodeon's Leading Ladies...
...incidental role in Sayuri's life as a geisha. She spends her evening hours being attractive and attentive to the men she entertains and excites at the scores of parties she pops in and out of, yet scarcely sees another man besides her dresser at any other time. The main figures in a geisha's life are all female. Even during the evening, while seemingly enthralled with the men she is with, a geisha is likely to be secretly worrying about a catty rivalry with some other geisha rather than about the men themselves. Conflict and backstabbing abound...
From the first seconds of Willis, the Pietasters premiere effort on Hellcat Records (they previously recorded on Moon Records), the band evidently attempts to follow the path to the main-stream created by The Mighty Mighty Bosstones. The Bosstones, however, made the leap while still maintaining a high standard of instrumentation, song writing and vocals. On Willis, Steve Jackson, the singer for the Pietasters, all too often comes off as a poor man's Dicky Barrett. While Barrett of the Bosstones can pull off a scratchy, cigarette-tarnished voice, Jackson instills a pain rarely felt. Not since Biz Markie crooning...