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...example, with the story of how Perseus slew the Medusa. In Calvino's allegory, the Medusa, whose gaze turns men to stone, freezes language with paralyzing weight. Perseus destroys the Medusa with lightness: he flies above her, and he only looks at her indirectly, in the mirror of his shield. Indirection and change are as important to Calvino's lightness as the subtraction of weight...
Candace R. Corvey, associate dean for finance,said Harvard has drawn increasing sums from itsendowment to supplement tuition for the pastseveral years. Corvey said that while students'fees will always make up much of the Collegebudget, the endowment is used to shield studentsfrom the full effects of constantly rising costs...
Officials at G.D. Searle must have watched with concern three years ago when a raft of lawsuits forced bankruptcy on A.H. Robins, maker of the Dalkon Shield intrauterine birth-control device. With good reason: from 1974 to 1986 Searle sold in the U.S. the Copper-7, an IUD that, like the Dalkon Shield, has been suspected of causing serious illnesses or injuries in some users...
BECAUSE in recent years the council has sought to avoid involvement in controversial political issues, limiting the meeting to council members has the effect of stifling undergraduate criticism of the Corporation and its policies. In its apolitical form, the council merely acts as a shield for the Corporation, keeping controversial issues out of the agenda and relegating them to student protests...
Among those amendments passing was a provision by Voke striking language in the bill that some feared would eliminate a state ban on allowing doctors to bill Blue Shield patients for more than the insurer allowed...