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Still, Hackett feels that drama at Harvard should stay within the extracurricular and not the academic realm. The last thing Hackett wants to see, she says is a drama department that could dominate the theater scene and restrict opportunities to theater majors. "Having no formal drama department makes people do theater on the extracurricular level, and therefore promotes the diversity of House, Loeb and Loeb Ex productions," she says. "Putting theater on the academic level might make it too limiting...
...shooting stars. It may seem the grisliest of bedtime stories, an unholy mixture of Disney and The Disasters of War. But it allows this event to be seen through the wide clear eyes of a child, and to exist both in the recent historical past and in the storybook realm of once-upon-a-time...
...sense, he belonged to everyone for those three weeks, and that universal parenthood may be worth remembering. Baby Doe was the product of a beneficent social impulse. Malahoff wished him into existence, and Stiver provided the incubator, but the context and impetus for the birth were in the public realm, the generally, if warily accepted idea that if infertile people want children strongly enough, then modern science ought to offer a way. Thus arose the recent and remarkable inventions of surrogate parents and test-tube babies. No one is wholly comfortable with these mechanisms, including the principals, but when...
...THESE influences have much the same impact in the realm of off-campus politics. Radical programs for tearing down and replacing existing institutions did not spring full grown from the heads of early SDSers. Subsequent militance evolved slowly, as frustration mounted over a value system called "liberalism." Student protest outside of the university was first motivated by a perceived discrepancy between what middle-class, educated parents had taught their children about American society and what young people actually encountered when they began reading newspapers and travelling the country. Students discovered racism instead of equality; systematic poverty instead of opportunity; Cold...
...realm of finance, 1983 may be remembered as the year that competition rumbled through the banking industry and rattled its foundations. To be sure, bankers have long vied with one another to offer customers the shiniest toasters or softest Teddy bears, but they have not had to compete where it counts: in the interest they pay for their basic savings and checking deposits. That situation is now changing. In a move to ease restrictions that had been in force since the Great Depression, federal regulators last month freed banks and savings and loan associations to pay whatever interest they wish...