Word: mix
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...Bring more highly recruited women and minority professors to Harvard. Some have rejected offers from Harvard because they know they have little chance of receiving tenure. Under a tenure-track system similar to those at many other schools, this fear would be alleviated, and a broader mix of qualified scholars would come to Harvard...
CAMILLE. Charles Ludlam died of AIDS in 1987, but his plays' nutty mix of drag-queen melodrama, camp slapstick and sly deconstruction lives on. His longtime companion and collaborator, Everett Quinton, restages and stars in yet another of them at off-Broadway's Ridiculous Theatrical Company...
LIFESTORIES (NBC, Sept. 12, 10 p.m. EDT). Of the networks' new fall entries, this slice-of-life-and-death series about people going through medical crises is one of the oddest. A downbeat mix of soap opera, psychological drama and medical-advice column, it will try to woo viewers away from America's Funniest Home Videos. Sort of NBC's death wish...
...mix. In 1973, when the Middle East erupted in the October War, the world was hit with Oil Shock No. 1. Then in 1979-80, after revolution broke out in Iran and the country was invaded by Iraq, came Oil Shock No. 2. In both cases petroleum prices soared, energy shortages developed, inflation took off, and the world's economies sank into recession. Last week fears of Oil Shock No. 3 could be felt from New York City to Tokyo...
Staff members are a good mix of native speakers and young American graduate students. Campers come from all over, for all reasons. "Chrystelle" at Lac du Bois is Pouneh Yasai, 16, from Iran by way of Milwaukee, who wants to be able to talk with her French cousins and plans to study international law or medicine at Georgetown. "Adina," who is Amy Macfarlane, 16, of Baldwin, Wis., is in her third year of credit study at Waldsee and hopes to do research on the effects of two world wars on German culture. Like most students, it seems, she wants...