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Professor of English and Comparative Literature Barbara E. Johnson, who signed the letter to Rudenstine, said the decision to refer to the letter's signatories as "gay and lesbian members of the faculty" excluded the straight supporters of its stance from signing...
...referral committee has been one of the most important and effective cost-cutting measures, according to many doctors. Before its advent roughly three years ago, doctors say, the health service would lose track of people sent to specialists outside UHS. In many of these instances, specialists would refer people to other specialists, and UHS would be stuck with the bill for each additional visit...
...What used to happen was...we'd refer the patient outside and lose control," says Dr. Mary Wolfman, who sits on the referral committee. "It's a way of containing costs but it also benefits the care that people have gotten...
Listen to the rap group Basehead on its new song I Need a Joint: "So how to get over, how to get by?/ I wish I had a joint to get me high." The Seattle band Supersuckers has a song called Tasty Greens, which does not refer to spinach. The title of a new album by gangsta rapper Dr. Dre, The Chronic, is the name of a particularly potent strain of marijuana. More obliquely, the hard-rock band Living Colour celebrates Hemp (another of the virtually interchangeable terms for marijuana) in lyrics that read like something a junior-high burnout...
...writing in response to your March 26 article regarding a meeting of the Undergraduate Council's "Sour Grapes contingent" to discuss the role of women on the Council. I refer to the Melissa Garza-Jennifer Grove faction as the "Sour Grapes contingent" because, whereas they have collectively been defeated in four races for Council Vice-chair, their frustration on the U.C. is more a result of their electoral misfortune than over valid grievances...