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...last half century of the College and, notably, one of the first black administrators in the Ivy League, Epps lists among his many accomplishments facilitating a striking rise in the number of student groups, coordinating the extensive review and discussion of race relations and helping to form the shape of our current student government...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Our Dean Departs | 11/23/1998 | See Source »

...themes working through the stories, it is disillusionment that seems to cast its shadow most often upon the main characters. In "Willing," an actress finds herself without money and fame, moves back home and takes up with an auto mechanic: "It had taken on the shape of a terrible mistake. She hadn't been given the proper tools to make a real life with...She'd been given a can of gravy and a hairbrush and told `There you go.'" In "Real Estate," a woman named Ruth becomes so dissatisfied with her life that she finds metaphysical consolation only...

Author: By Jason F. Clarke, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: All Heroine, No High | 11/20/1998 | See Source »

...same time however, Hollywood tends to shape the perceptions of these couples in a way that desexualizes gay men. Augustine, a women's studies concentrator, has an academic as well as personal interest in this concept. "There's an issue of passing and trapping in a heteronormative paradigm, what men should act like. These men can't be the women's best friends if they're not pretending to be straight," he says...

Author: By Vicky C. Hallett, | Title: My Guy | 11/19/1998 | See Source »

...PBHA is student-governed. That makes the elections impor- tant," Rothert said. "The shape of theorganization depends on the students within...

Author: By Tova A. Serkin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: PBHA Cabinet To Elect Top Officers Tonight | 11/17/1998 | See Source »

BELINDA LUSCOMBE's article this week on the resurgence of 1950s architecture and design allowed her to explore a genre that has played an unusual role in her life. "My mother made a cake for my wedding in the shape of Le Corbusier's 1955 chapel in Ronchamp, France," she says. "It was the subject of my husband's thesis. My thesis was on the poetry of Matthew Arnold--lousy cake material." Fortunately for us, Luscombe veered away from poetry, and her native Australia, to land at TIME, where for three years she has employed her characteristic wit to write...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Contributors: Nov. 16, 1998 | 11/16/1998 | See Source »

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