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...that discussions about a "Jewish problem" should not have taken place at all. At Harvard, an institution which has a history of anti-Jewish admissions discrimination, especially under President A. Lawrence Lowell, class of 1877, such discussions, even in the name of diversity, conjure up the ugly and dangerous shadow of a bigoted environment...
...looking elsewhere for help. There was no way to retreat into the school buildings; the doors had automatically locked as the finale of the fire drill. So, crawling to the shelter of the gymnasium, Barnes chanted Psalm 23 to himself: "Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil...
Feeble as he is, Yeltsin is still a cunning politician with an almost feudal authority over the ambitious operators in his shadow. He can crank up short bursts of devastating energy, as he did last week when he fired Prime Minister Victor Chernomyrdin and his entire Cabinet. With one sharp stroke, Yeltsin eliminated everyone he thought might be a threat to his political future. He left the reactionaries, the nationalists, the billionaire crony capitalists to pick themselves up, to scheme and struggle over whom to back and how to lay hands on still more of the vast wealth of Russia...
...shadow of the great numbers of pre-medical students--who are aided by vast institutional networks--the few but proud pre-veterinary students at Harvard look at the resources of the pre-medical track with a mixture of envy and bemusement...
...loves to revisit its musical heritage, but director Sam Mendes' new version of Cabaret is likely to give it a jolt. The sex is raw and upfront: Cliff (John Benjamin Hickey), the American writer who befriends Sally, is more overtly bisexual, and the leering number Two Ladies features a shadow play of simulated sex. The garish emcee (Alan Cumming, giving a spectacularly decadent twist on the part that made Joel Grey's career) sports blue and red eye shadow, sequined nipples and suspenders wrapped around his crotch--Alex from A Clockwork Orange filtered through Madonna's Sex book. Where...