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...raising awareness about the AIDS crisis in sub-Saharan Africa, in the Caribbean, and among black Americans. The events will include a benefit dinner on April 22 and a conference with presentations and panel discussions all day on April 23. Owusu-Kesse said the weekend will conclude with a semi-formal dance on April...
Similarly, he had reservations about the swarming of poets into U.S. colleges and universities after World War II, even as he joined the throng. Teaching, which he called "the next thing to hereditary wealth," paid his bills, but the maverick artist in him rebelled against "this whole literary-academic, semi-fashionable, established accepting-things-at-their-own-valuation world." Privately, he bit the doddering hands that fed him: "The faculty of the college are very much like the city of Greensboro [N.C.]--though this is doing an injustice to several trees which are cleverer than several of this faculty...
...initiatives that Corker has helped spearhead buy into that narrow definition. The College’s most significant accomplishments on the social front during Corker’s tenure include convincing the Cambridge Licensing Commission to re-extend party hours to 2 a.m. and beginning a semi-regular event that may eventually lead to the creation of a permanent campus...
...Flying, became an international sensation 30 years ago, flying out of bookstores; 18 million copies are in print worldwide. Now her daughter (by her ex-husband, writer Jonathan Fast) is giving her a run for her money. In The Sex Doctors in the Basement: True Stories from a Semi-Celebrity Childhood (Villard; 192 pages), novelist Molly Jong-Fast, 26, tells of growing up Jong and Fast. TIME sat down for a chat with mother and daughter...
...contrast with the earlier semi, only 10 penalties were handed out by the refs—Minnesota went 3-for-5 on the power play while Dartmouth...