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...related development, Gary Ness of the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau said he filed a class-action complaint. Thursday on behalf of all tenants, seeking a preliminary injunction on evictions...
...number called The Message. Flash and the crew are treach, which is short for treacherous and slang for what a decade ago would have been called superfine. Grandmaster favors leathers, tip to toe, and has FLASH spelled out in lightning-bolt letters on the back of his jacket. Mr. Ness, of the Furious Five, favors metal studs, while his compatriot, Melle Mel, currently opts for fur. This is work wear, not street clothing, but Melle Mel knows what message they are putting across. "It gives you a more dominant, primitive look. We dress like this because...
SUCH DISSECTION makes one painfully aware not just of Jacob's essential un funny-ness as a commentator--she takes Woody with too much desperate seriousness to get any further than a string of "this is hysterical" --but also the delicacy of the task she has taken on. If writing about Woody seemed like a glowing, as-yet-un-snatched opportunity, the flip side is that a talent so multifaceted and subtle as his cannot be helpfully reduced to a series of art-vs.-life and success-vs.-integrity conflicts, or even to a run-of-the-mill Freudian manifestation...
...education as a process has become the conventionally worthy answer today whenever college presidents and other academic leaders are asked what an education should be. An educated man, says Harvard President Bok, taking a deep breath, must have a "curiosity in exploring the unfamiliar and unexpected, an open-minded-ness in entertaining opposing points of view, tolerance for the ambiguity that surrounds so many important issues, and a willingness to make the best decisions he can in the face of uncertainty and doubt...
...that savings banks don't compete with commercial banks can only be described as bizarre." Thus said Citicorp Chairman Walter Wriston two years ago at a convention of bankers in Boca Raton, Fla., when he lashed out at regulations that for bid a bank from doing commercial busi ness in another state. But despite those rules, New York's Citicorp has forged ahead in its ambitious plans to begin tap ping the $833 billion pool of consumer deposits held by American savings and loan institutions. Citicorp, the second largest U.S. bank holding company (assets...