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Galbraith's speech focused on improvements at Harvard over the last several decades. In particular, he noted that many of the professors who taught here when he arrived 61 years ago would not receive tenure today. He praised the demise of the "white shoe boys" of old who "prided themselves on how little work they...
...sexual encounters.) Tom: The Unknown Tennessee Williams (Crown; 644 pages; $35) is the first installment of what will be a two-volume portrait. It tracks Williams from 1911--when he was born, in St. Louis, Missouri, to an indrawn, alcoholic father who worked most of his life for a shoe company and an outgoing, garrulous mother of frustrated social ambitions--until 1945, when the playwright achieved his first great success with The Glass Menagerie...
...YEARS, GUCCI HAD BEEN descending from Riviera swank to Jersey gaud. Its overlicensed double-G appeared on everything from coffee mugs to ashtrays. Fake versions of its handbags were sold on urban street corners everywhere. Then, suddenly, it found a shoe that fit: a sexy, backless clodhopper that became the must-have of devotees of high style in 1993. Gucci went on a winning streak. By March 1995 its designer, Tom Ford, was electrifying the fashion world with a revival of '60s rebellion. Soon celebrities like Madonna were in head-to-toe Gucci. At the company's London boutique this...
...black, not a single person shared my feelings. You could see the disappointment in the faces of two of my female colleagues and the males were strangely silent. Since blacks are always assumed to be guilty, I feel the not-guilty verdict was one for all black people. The shoe is now on the other foot, and whites don't like the way it feels or fits. BILLY CHATMAN, Houston Via E-mail...
Harvard dominated the first game with spirited play and won 15-5. It seemed that the Crimson would be a shoe-in for an easy three game sweep considering its high-level of play...