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...author's line of sight has shifted, maybe broadened. A theme that recurs is of white medics in Africa. Heroism here consists of crumbling into alcoholism, drugs and depression as slowly as possible, and with as much grace. Occasional joyousness is real but fragmented. The narrator of the title story is a washed-up doc, fired from his African aid mission and back home in the U.S., who is taking his depressed and institutionalized sister for an outing. They kid around about death and heaven, then veer into cheerfulness: "I'm thinking that I'm gonna be all right...
...enthusiasm for electronic versions of application, high school students shouldn't lose sight of the process of admissions which is probably not going to change," he says...
...have an all-white staff choosing the candidates, if you don't have any amongst them when you discuss [affirmative action], out of sight is out of mind," she says...
More than 1000 Harvard students and faculty participate in the Washington D.C. peace protest, which attracted a quarter of a million people. Former Harvard professor of psychology Timothy Leary calls the event "out of sight...
...culture where book reading is supposed to be an endangered habit, it is an oddly heartening sight. By the end of the year, the U.S. will have more than 450 sprawling, chain-run book emporiums equipped with reading tables, sofas, club chairs and coffee bars. Well over 100 new ones sprang up in 1994; seven will open this year in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, alone. These superstores, run by such chains as Barnes & Noble, Borders and Media Play, usually stock around 100,000 titles (in contrast to 20,000 for a typical mall store). But the real attraction is the opportunity...