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William R. Handley, a popular assistant professor of literature who specializes in the literature of the American west, announced Friday he will step down at the end of the term to take a new post at the University of Southern California...
...post polls at all? Because they're one of the best ways we know for a news site to get its readers involved, passionate and coming back for more -- not an easy feat in these jaded days. The more controversial the topic, the better the poll. That doesn't change just because it's only the opinion of the site's visitors, whose opinion shows up in the tallies. President Clinton's lofty national approval ratings in conventional, scientific surveys were definitely not reflected in TIME Daily's own polls -- a twist that caused our voters no end of consternation...
...mission is to prevent a militaristic presidential candidate from winning and fulfilling his alliance with a disco-dancing tele-evangelist by outlawing rock'n roll. They do so by transforming a stuttering barber-woman into the Cinderella candidate destined for victory. What follows is a synchronic allegory of post-revolutionary American history only thinly disguised as an innovative commentary on gender roles in the 90s. Each character represents an associative metonym in American history, grounded in the contiguity of time and space. Some even double as personifications of today's pressing issues (Go, Hasty Pudding!), such as xenophobia, international espionage...
When beautician Polly Tishun (Michael Kennedy '99) blooms from her stuttering shy-girl cocoon and becomes a sexy, successful presidential candidate, we not only see gender-bending acquire an occupational valence but also a post-feminist re-telling of the American teenager's Bildungsroman, embedded in a politicized pulp paradigm that we have not seen since the 60s (aka Celine Dion). Kennedy is fully aware of all the dimensions of his character but still manages to add symbolic layers even as he sheds tactile ones...
...Matt Gordy Quintet, a progressive,post-bop jazz group, returns to play at theCharles Hotel's Regatta Bar at 8:30 p.m. Call(617) 876-7777 to order tickets...