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Such an approach would not be quite so offensive if the library had equally strong centers devoted to poetry, or English literature, or biology, or history or art. But aside from a few seemingly random choices (the Business and Technology Center, the Steve Silver/Beach Blanket Babylon Music Center), virtually all the centers focus on particular racial, ethnic or sexual minorities. The library's mission statement declares that the Main Library is dedicated to promoting "the joys of reading for our diverse community," but the centers interpret that diversity in the most literal sense. A "center" for black readers ought...
None of our other experts has predicted the future quite the way Caleb Carr does in his novel Killing Time, which we commissioned for the series and which will be published in full later this year by Random House. Though the adventures of Dr. Gideon Wolfe will be expanded in the book, readers have got enough of a taste to know Carr is not quite the optimist Kaku is. "I don't mean to say these things will happen, since things can go any one of 10 ways in the future," says Carr. "But I do worry if all these...
...been videotaping random conversations," Ann says. "I want to make some sort of video tape--just our bizarre lives...
...residents, the Houses took on more distinct personalities. Diversity of Houses was one thing; diversity in the Houses was quite another. "I do not believe that a community must have two of everything, like Noah's Ark," said former Adams House Master Robert J. Kiely in the days before random House assignments. Currier House became the choice of many of the College's minority students, who comprised about one-third of its population during the early 1990s, and the Houses moved more and more in their own directions. The Houses had less in common with one another, and the differences...
...report, the Student Council condemned Yale's "IBM system" of random housing assignments as inimical to true community. Ironically, it didn't take the administration's IBM system to challenge communal college life. The House system took its strongest blow from students themselves, pushing for diverse interests and bored with the prospects of beer parties, holiday plays and football matches. Lowell's House system may well have been meant for another age, one in which students enjoyed the same basic pastimes and believed the same basic ideas...