Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...surprising just how far things have come. We're well beyond such hucksterish practices as the renaming of San Francisco's Candlestick Park as 3Com Park and Cincinnati's Riverfront Stadium as Cinergy Field after corporate sponsors. That's pure commercialism that helps pay for stratospheric ballplayer salaries and gives companies gigantic billboards. Backing social causes, on the other hand, moves corporations onto a moral plain. You may not like profit-minded ceos deciding which charities get all the loot. But in an era of shrinking government responsibility for the welfare of its citizens, somebody has to pick...
Wellesley College Professor of History Katherine Park '72 said nurturing a women's studies program is never an easy task, even at an school dedicated solely to women...
...recently at Wellesley, celebrating the 15th anniversary of their own women's studies department," said Park, who will soon join Harvard's Faculty, jointly tenured in women's studies and history of science. "In a school where 30 percent of the faculty are women, they still faced enormous challenges. It is 10 times more difficult at Harvard...
...based piece, and as such tends to feel highly literary. Its central metaphor has to do with birds and nests: the young hustlers, little birds buffeted by the winds of a world that scorns and rejects them, must always eventually come flying back to their place of acceptance--New Park, or the "Cozy Nest" that cradles them...
...Kuilong. Li, as Chief Yang, wavers between a delightfully arrogant rendition of the part (as he struts about unfolding and snapping shut a large gold fan) and a problematic tendency to stumble over his lines. And Patrick Wang, who plays several small parts--most notably Grandpa Guo, the New Park gardener who first finds Hawk and tells him the park's history--is a powerful actor both in large parts and as a character performer. He could, perhaps, have been better used in one of the larger roles...