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Until this year, it was the Soviet Union that most opposed German unification; now Moscow sees Germany as an economic life raft. Actually, says Vladimir Shenayev, deputy director of the Soviet Institute of Europe, "we understood that solving this question was in our interest long before we made it public." According to Shenayev, Moscow wanted to get out from under the cost of maintaining its army in East Germany but had to figure a way to get the Western allies to withdraw as well...
...list of the support groups she has either started or supervised here reads like a general information booklet on support groups at Harvard--Room 13, Peer Contraceptive Counsellors (PCC), Response, Contact, Life Raft and AIDS Support Group...
...Finley insists. "If I talk about a woman being raped, I have to use the language of the perpetrators." While her wild orations about menstruation and excrement have been known to rattle even shockproof veterans of New York City's downtown art scene, they have also won her a raft of admiring reviews. When she performed at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis in January, the Star Tribune used words like heartfelt and moving to describe We Keep Our Victims Ready, a verse piece about the consequences of male violence for women, gays and the homeless. The same piece...
...fighting, and largely failing, to keep their waistlines under control. Americans spent more than $30 billion last year on such offerings as diet books, videotapes, appetite suppressants, "lite" foods, low-calorie beverages and commercial weight-loss programs. Now the overweight and overwrought are rushing to try the latest raft of crash-diet plans, which promote ways to trim fat quickly by doing little more than taking pills or swilling specially formulated drinks...
...barbeque behind Sever was...nice. Quadfest was...in the Quad. The raft race is... cancelled. We need more. We need a weekend set aside for pure fun, games and general debauchery. Even Harvard students are not above a little frivolousness every once in a while...