Word: mentions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...make this kind of effort less financially painful is to make the scar of gender-inequality an issue with donors. Indeed, the ongoing $2.1 billion campaign makes scarcely any mention of this persistent problem. But it is the prerogatives emphasized in fund-raising drives like this one that determine what kind of University Harvard will become. If President Rudenstine and Dean Knowles are really as distressed about the lack of gender proportionality in the Faculty as they purport to be, they must make a point of emphasizing the need for funds earmarked for closing the gender gap. And this effort...
...state answering machine, once to a phone-sex number, once to 1-800-EAT-S___. It took a year, half a dozen different unlisted numbers and a squad of phone-company security guys with phone taps before the problem mercifully disappeared. And I won't even mention the lawsuit...
Scheduled to air within the next year or so: TV-movie versions of Moby Dick and David Copperfield for the USA and Turner networks respectively, not to mention a sweeping Crime and Punishment mini-series for NBC. Meanwhile, Halmi is also working to bring versions of Animal Farm, The Raven and Dante's Inferno to the small screen...
...spent here, perhaps because they are serious theorists eager to impart their perspectives to a willing audience. While those perspectives are from opposite political camps--Berkowitz is a classicist, Honig a post-modernist--these two scholars had much to offer a department in need of such theorists, not to mention conservatives and women...
...Clayton, the EMT. "That grandmother is going to have a stroke dealing with this," she says. "She's got so many kids she's raising in that house. There are four or five different families in there. Someone should track down the mother and make her take some responsibility." Mention of Tom's uncle Lenny Koskovich provokes a different response. "He's got a rap sheet that's as long as Scott Road. He is one bad man," says Clayton. The uncle is now serving his latest sentence, 10 years for burglary...