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Felsher sat in her office last Friday, preparing to celebrate with an evening of song at the Carlyle Hotel. Someone else would be singing, but that didn't matter. She gazed at a pair of landscapes on her wall--moody paintings of a squall blowing a shaft of rain across the desert--by Peter Hurd, a LIFE artist during World War II. The canvases "were just found in a closet, years and years ago," Felsher says. What would have happened had no one been there to protect them? Happily for us, Elaine...
...fact is that educational achievement, not IQ scores, drives socioeconomic success. This is independent of the fact that there are environmental factors to intelligence and, when it comes to each of these factors, inner-city Black children get the shaft. Not to mention the other environmental factors like, family stability," that also impact educational achievement...
...amazing as it is to hear a star state that the fans are getting the shaft, that is not precisely the case. No one is holding a gun to the head of the spectator and forcing anyone to part with $12 to sit so far away from courtside in Orlando that O'Neal actually looks small. The Orlando Magic won't have too many empty seats this year in the expensive sections or in the very expensive sections. Baseball, if it ever gets under way in 1995, may suffer from depressed attendance. That will become clear only when moral indignation...
...anyone is killed. It is likely that Fate, the boss, or whoever has turned on Gus. This innocent man may fall victim to the evil which he has sensed but cannot find the words to explain. It may be that he, and not the old elevator shaft with its moveable shelf which sends the message of death, is the actual dumb waiter, stupidly waiting...
...Linguistics department passed swiftly through the College's collective consciousness. The differing receptions afforded these two issues demonstrates on a small scale a rule that holds true for campus events generally. If a Harvard professor debates gay rights, though he do it at the bottom of a Tasmanian mine shaft, it will attract more attention than any reform affecting undergraduate education...