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...fewer people at these protests. But the causes for which groups like CCR are fighting could be better served if their sit-ins drew only one or two committed students ready to put their academic careers on the line instead of the 45 who know they will get off scot free. Remember, it was the willingness of people like Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. to endure hardship that lent credibility and depth to their civil disobedience...

Author: By Mark J. Sneider, | Title: Why I Like Dean Clark | 5/8/1991 | See Source »

This year's new agency heads are Tobey Weintraub '92, of Catering; Scot Landry '92, of Direct Sales; Fred Jenkins '92, of Distribution; Malcolm Miles '93, of Linen; Zanley Galton '92, of Publishing; Michael L. Campbell '93, of Sales Group; Matthew Kirsch '93, of Student Resources; Jason Jue '93, of Text Processing; Brian Goler '93, of Travel; and Grace Yeh '93, of Union...

Author: By Angelina M. Snodgrass, | Title: HSA Picks Ten New Leaders | 11/8/1990 | See Source »

...dramatic exploration of character and foible, already a mainspring of English plays before the early 17th century, had to wait for Shakespeare to disclose its full power. "There's no art/ To find the mind's construction in the face," complained Duncan in Macbeth, but he was a primitive Scot; after Titian, there emphatically was such an art. The fierce, glaring authority of Doge Andrea Gritti; the plump self-assurance of the Florentine historian Benedetto Varchi; the saurian cunning of old Pope Paul III, huddled in his velvet cape; and the inflexible determination of the military commander Francesco Maria della...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: An Appetite for Human Character | 9/17/1990 | See Source »

...unique biotope," says an official. "There are wild rabbits here, hedgehogs, opossums." The problem is that the environmentalists' efforts to get rid of the Wall are being blocked by art historians. "They regard the Wall as a work of art," the official complains, "because of the graffiti." An expatriated Scot finally explains to the American that the "famous reunification" back in the 1990s was "all just coffee and cakes." "Do you still remember how frightened of the Germans everyone was in the '90s? And what's happened? Nothing at all. Since then the German bogeyman has very quietly been laid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Germany Toward Unity | 7/9/1990 | See Source »

...will if you're an unfortunate first-year student. The fact is that the enforcement of the poster-gum standard is incredibly capricious. The students in my dorm are paying for every nick and scratch, while one senior who pasted checkered wall-paper all over her bathroom got off scot-free, just like another senior who says he left his coffee pot on during winter break...

Author: By Steven V. Mazie, | Title: Tacks Reform | 1/24/1990 | See Source »

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