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...several Harvard students founded Prism, a group dedicated to giving biracial and multiracial Harvard students a voice of their...

Author: By Leondra R. Kruger, | Title: Multiracial Students: Searching for a Voice | 5/19/1995 | See Source »

Another meeting held in October was sparsely attended, and Maxwell says when Brathwaite decided to return to his West Virginia home for the spring semester, Prism again began to fall apart...

Author: By Leondra R. Kruger, | Title: Multiracial Students: Searching for a Voice | 5/19/1995 | See Source »

...sight of dead children opens an abyss in the mind, of course. The wound may heal better if we not only sift through rubble and the mystery of evil, but also look out at the horizon. A helpful exercise is to study Oklahoma City and the 1990s through the prism of a new book called Walt Whitman's America (Knopf). Here, David S. Reynolds, professor of American Literature and American Studies at New York City's Baruch College, splendidly examines the culture that formed the greatest American poet and the greatest American poem, Leaves of Grass, which was first published...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BAD OLD DAYS | 5/8/1995 | See Source »

...have felt equally disconcerted and amused. But now the overwhelming sensation is one of cognitive dissonance. The spectacle no longer sits well with me. I won't be complicit in what is a ritualized, institutionally sanctioned, demonization of women and, worse, pay to see bodies refracted through that prism of distortion. And besides, why look like Norma Desmond, if you don't absolutely have...

Author: By Lorraine Lezama, | Title: Pudding Ritual is a Drag | 2/28/1995 | See Source »

Passing around a list of every function in the budget, Kasich said, "All of these groups will be looked at under the prism of can it be eliminated, can it be privatized, can it be cut?" Hearing the magnitude of Kasich's plan for the first time, Gingrich was concerned. "The other committees are all going to jump on you," he warned Kasich. Soon-to-be majority leader Dick Armey of Texas added a stern caution of his own: "If you get out too far ahead of us, you're going to be out there alone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Man with a Vision | 1/9/1995 | See Source »

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