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Carnesale said the Corporation needed to take action, adding that Green was responsible for seeing that the report was issued in a timely manner. He also took responsibility for not informing members of the community about the changes.Crimson File PhotoNeil L. Rudenstine University President...
...first half of the play, A is a dotty old woman, a shadow of her former self, though the stories she recounts intimate what she was like when she was younger. Traces remain of the imperious manner, regal bearing and caustic wit, but they are interspersed with instances of memory loss, sudden fits of tears and humiliating moments of incontinence. At the close of the act, she suffers a stroke. In the second act, the full character is fleshed out, as B and C reappear in 1950s and 1920s dress, respectively. The dowdyish assistant has become the sophisticated, fiftyish...
David Armstrong, for example, creates elegant, formal pictures of his friends and lovers. The black and white photography and the careful posed manner of his subjects call to mind traditional portraiture. Yet the slow, intent stare of the subjects conveys a sense of the connection between the artist and the people he photographed. In this way, he achieves a kind of autobiographical gesture in his work...
Liberal confusion is particularly evident in foreign policy. While conservatives are often willing to use force in an immoral, unprincipled manner, liberals are often too pacifist or too skittish to use military force at all. For example, the Clinton administration vacillated on Bosnia and issued dozens of empty threats and ultimatums. Liberals must realize that force should be used generously for moral purposes...
Jerry Rice is to football what Cal Ripken is to baseball--a soft-spoken hero whose phenomenal accomplishments on the field contrast with his dignified manner off the field and in the locker room...