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...house-wide facilities are complemented by pleasant individual accommodations, says McEvoy. North House has about 30 duplexes and a group of sought-after rooms in Wolbach Hall, a former apartment building, replete with living rooms and kitchens...

Author: By David B. Lat, | Title: Diverse NoHosers Boast Spirit, Unity | 3/6/1993 | See Source »

CATASTROPHE. THE HUMAN RACE IS approaching extinction because all male sperm is sterile. But listen. England's green and pleasant land is still surprisingly intact. In P.D. James' THE CHILDREN OF MEN (Knopf; $22) the country is ruled by a dictator who has canceled most civil liberties. But the middle class still prospers, and Oxford shelters scholars like Theo Faron. Because he is the strongman's cousin, he is approached by a pretty member of a dissident group. Her fellows turn out to be cliches, and, of course, she gets pregnant. Sci-fi is a cottage industry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Short Takes: Mar. 1, 1993 | 3/1/1993 | See Source »

Especially for Hamilton, a genuinely pleasant guy who was genuinely pleased to see his team win a grand total of three games--two in one match, even...

Author: By John B. Trainer, | Title: M. Squash Breezes Past MIT, Williams | 2/4/1993 | See Source »

Jeffrey (John Michael Higgins) is such a fellow. This pleasant young actor- waiter grew up thanking God for the joy of sex; now he curses God because "life is suddenly radioactive." So he decides that the only safe sex is celibacy. He sublimates at the gym: "endorphins, not hormones." He rejects the amiable advances of Steve (Tom Hewitt), who is HIV positive. And gradually he retreats from the gay life -- not just the sex, but the camaraderie in times of frivolity and mourning. He doesn't want to attend -- and diss -- one more AIDS memorial at which the guest stars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Celibacy, The Safest Sex | 2/1/1993 | See Source »

...upsurge of prosthetic hair will come as a pleasant surprise to all those victims of male-pattern balding out there--you know who you are! And until now, so did everyone else...

Author: By Erica L. Werner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hair in the Square | 1/13/1993 | See Source »

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