Word: mentions
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...this University attend Harvard College classes, live in Harvard College dormitories, take their meals in common dining halls and in every other conceivable way share with their male counterparts in the Harvard College experience, when it comes time to receive our degrees, those of women will make no mention of Harvard College, as our male classmates' will. Our diplomas will instead bear the seals of Harvard University and Radcliffe College...
Today there is no marker, no mention of any of this on Sullivan's Island--just beach homes and speedboats bobbing in the sun. "The reason people are afraid to talk about slavery is the terrible truth of someplace like this," says Ball. He learned of the pest houses while writing Slaves in the Family (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $30), his chronicle of his slave-owning family and the blacks they held. "Look at this," he sighs. "The story has absolutely been erased...
...Strauss' invincible operetta replaces Old Vienna with New York, and sets the story on the final day of Prohibition. Besides confirming the characters in their schnapps and vodka guzzling, this innovation allows for wittiness of reference: we got to see flappers onstage during the longer instrumental passages, and hear mention of Greta Garbo, Dillinger and Einstein. The evening's comedy embraced everything from metahumor and operatic in-jokes to puns, sight-gags and slapstick, and the freshness of the jokes kept the story lively through a potentially interminable second...
...Clinton's calculated caution will disappoint Republicans, for whom Kyoto has already become the first real battleground of the 2000 election (not to mention the '98 budget and midterms). For the first time since Fred Thompson's hearings disbanded, the GOP smells blood ? and its best chance to sink some teeth into the Vice President...
...that the Famous San Diego Chicken mascot was a winner for assaulting Barney and that Barney was "always a loser" [PEOPLE, Nov. 17]. I disagree. I used to make jokes about Barney, the popular purple dinosaur. But now I have a two-year-old daughter who at the very mention of the name Barney breaks into a joyful, excited dance. I think the Famous Chicken is just jealous. I bet he'd love to be recognized the world over. NANCY HOLTROP Palmdale, Calif...