Word: opening
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Compounding the problem for some is Harvard's long-time insistence that all University-sponsored programming be open to all undergraduates. That means no center or space devoted solely to women, like Radcliffe's Lyman Common Room, and no women's student government open to only women voters, like the Radcliffe Union of Students...
...lower Fifth Avenue. Law students hunched up in cubicles pore over case files and draft legal motions. In a corner, boxes are piled high with letters from prisoners pleading to have the project take their case. The law school pays most of the bills; private foundations, including George Soros' Open Society Institute, help with the rest...
NAME: Martina "Not Navratilova" Hingis OCCUPATION: Teen-age tennis phenom BEST PUNCH: After Serena and Venus' father predicted an all-Williams U.S. Open final, Hingis said he had a "big mouth" and the family "talk...
...people," Rock declared. "There are two sides: there's black people, and there's niggas. And niggas have got to go." Niggas, in Rock's view, were a source of ignorance, violence, family dysfunction. It was a riff that resembled traditional stand-up comedy in the way that an open wound sometimes resembles a smile...
...standing in front of Chris Rock's home: a carriage house in Brooklyn, ivy hanging from the front, a quiet street except for a kid a block or two away blasting Bob Marley's Is This Love from the open windows of his van. Malaak, Rock's wife, answers the door, and a rat-size terrier explodes out, yapping. "That's Essence," says Malaak. Named after Essence, the magazine? "Named after the [1993] Essence Awards, where Chris and I first met," she corrects...