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...close, applause meter-judged contest, first place garlands went to Elisabeth B. Reynolds '88, Rebecca Hardy '88, Amy R. Spater '88, and Laurence H. Pratt '88, Who performed in drag. For their performance of Aretha Franklin's "Respect," the four won a $20 gift certificate to the record department of the Coop. Pratt downplayed his role in the quartet. "Guys dressing up in drag is a pretty popular thing," he said...
...Mays are relaxing over breakfast, the capital is suddenly stormed by the Khmer Rouge, and everything is abruptly swallowed up in the shadow world. As the country descends into anarchy, the 17-year-old narrator becomes a fugitive. Packing up his treasured copies of Animal Farm and Rebecca, he is driven in the family Land Rover through a boulevard of corpses, out into the wasted fields. Suddenly, the children who loved to listen to ghost stories are living them...
...measure this change, the biologists -- Allan Wilson, currently on sabbatical from the University of California, Berkeley; Rebecca Cann, now of the University of Hawaii; and Mark Stoneking, at Berkeley -- examined mtDNA from 147 individuals representing five broad geographic regions. The scientists analyzed the samples by mixing them with restriction enzymes, proteins that cut strands of DNA at specific sites. After comparing the resulting fragments, the scientists used a computer to analyze the differences between the mtDNA samples and construct a "family" tree. Those differences were so small that they could be explained by assuming the existence of one ancestral mtDNA...
...spoke earnestly of homesickness. Others denounced capitalist competition, crime in the streets and public and private corruption. Most seemed eager to swap the hazards of American freedom for the gray certitudes of Soviet life. "I was afraid to go out in the street after 4 in the afternoon," said Rebecca Katsap, 67, who was headed for Odessa from New York City. "I kiss my native soil with happiness. Eight years of life in a strange land are behind...
...theater category, the Harvard-Radcliffe Classics Club for the production of Sophocles' "Ajax" was given money as well as Rebecca L. Crandall '87 for her staging of excerpts from Milan Kundera's "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting...