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...laughs. His father, a sergeant in the Air Force, divorced his mother when he was eight. The family moved around a lot, with stops in Brooklyn, New York, and Landover, Maryland. "Sometimes you gotta laugh to keep from crying," says Lawrence's sister (and personal assistant) Rae Proctor. "We were poor. Mother raised us, six of us, when she was working as a cashier." Lawrence made his family laugh, then he made people on his street laugh. Then, realizing that he could earn a living at this, he headed off to the comedy-club circuit. Hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons...
...voice of an individual woman/girl/grrrl, singing, mostly, this time, about the women/girls/grrrls around her: the traitors, the cool ones, the ones she hates and the ones she loves. The punk rock, while always simple and loud, varies enough with the lyrical mood to make songs of love ("For Tammy Rae") and of resentment ("Alien She," which taunts "She wants me to be like her, she wants me to be like her") equally convincing...
...similarities end there. Fischer is a reclusive eccentric who has spent most of his life alone in hotel rooms with the curtains drawn. Short is happily married to a Greek psychologist, Rae Karageorgiou, and finds time, even during tournaments, to play with toy trains with his two-year-old daughter, Kiveli. He lives in a cozy apartment in the leafy London suburb of West Hampstead and relishes beach time in Greece and good laughs over beer almost anywhere. He is, in other words, a rather normal guy with a sly smile and a quiet manner...
Tracey E. Tomlinson '94 and Kelli Rae Patton '94 read selections from their poetry on Saturday and said they received a good response to their performance...
Last week, Bob Rae, the premier of Ontario, spoke in an unusually frank manner at the Center for International Affairs on lessons that the United States could learn from Ontario's health-care system. At one point in the discussion, he remarked that the absurd amounts spent on marginal health-care technology to preserve lives already at their tail end was a fruitless attempt to raise our collective quality of life. American medical-research institutions, he said, are trying to do to natural death what the Victorians did to sex--sweep it under the carpet and pretend that it doesn...