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Aesthetic appreciation and awareness is often part of the transformative foreign experience. Although in the current techno-capitalist society of modern America, "quality of life" is often measured in output (and appropriated by grades or high salaries), "quality" abroad refers to the direct, titillating effect of sights, smells and tastes...

Author: By Dafna V. Hochman, | Title: Metamorphoses In Foreign Lands | 3/26/1999 | See Source »

When he feels unqualified to recommend a particular student--either because he does not think highly of the student's promise or because he does not know the student well--Kishlansky simply refers the requester to another Faculty member.

Author: By Tova A. Serkin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Faculty Swamped by Letters of Recommendation | 3/25/1999 | See Source »

Hold on. The number on her jersey is not some power grab at now vacant Airness but an allusion to the most important person in Holdsclaw's life. It refers to the 23rd Psalm, the one that begins "The Lord is my shepherd," taught to her by her grandmother June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Meek Shall Inherit | 3/22/1999 | See Source »

CAMERON WEST, who claims to have 24 personalities, is vague on many details of his life, but he knows exactly how much he has been paid for his story. West, 43, received a $110,000 advance from Hyperion for his new book, First Person Plural: My Life as a Multiple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mental Illness | 3/1/1999 | See Source »

Why is this relevant? Children share what author Jonathan Kozol refers to as the "equality of innocence." We know kids are not responsible for their situation because their youth exempts them from personal responsibility. Explanations we give for their poverty sound very common-sensical as a result: They are homeless...

Author: By Alexander T. Nguyen, | Title: Two Truths and a Lie | 2/22/1999 | See Source »

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