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...Cindy and Roger Plum of Coon Rapids, Minn., overstep the limits of parental sacrifice to try to save their 9-year-old daughter Alyssa? Although their efforts failed, both parents say they would do it again -- and again...
...very divided about whether or not Harvard should have an undergraduate theatre department. I don't know if undergraduates have any consistent attitude about this. Some people want a department, others don't. Some undergraduate actors believe that if there were a department, the plum roles would go to drama majors rather than to people who just want to pursue theatre in an extracurricular way. I understand that argument and sympathize with it. There are other very serious theatre people here at Harvard who want to concentrate on it and develop their skills as undergraduates, and that's understandable...
...luxurious blue and green tropical birds on its tiled walls. Lipp's has long been famous for its choucroute (a.k.a. sauerkraut), and purists argue whether it deserves its reputation. But one outsider's view is that anyone who willingly orders choucroute deserves whatever he or she gets. The Alsatian plum tarts are much better. The main attraction, though, is the beer, which comes in glasses of increasing size, starting with a demi for a half-liter, working up to a serieux and finally a distingue, a mug holding a liter...
...business on his own for less than a year, but he has already won the Council of Fashion Designers of America's award for best new talent. What captivated the jaded professional eyes was the fresh colors of his simple, breezy separates. Burnished goldenrod, glowing coppery brown, deep plum, a palette of greens that goes from pale apple to ripe olive -- his hues seem drawn from the earth itself...
...other words, Harvard offers a juicy plum to alumni who might be willing to throw out a few scraps to the less fortunate. It's the trickle-down theory at its most ugly. Harvard's position is exactly analogous to arguing that it was all right for French monarchs to sell hereditary sinecures, because the revenues improved the crown's capacity to provide assistance to the peasants...