Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...teenagers, Susan and her sister Lorraine are climbing out of their windows to rendezvous with boyfriends with police records. After graduating from Vassar, Susan becomes a successful feminist writer and then a heroin addict, street drug peddler and shoplifter. Lorraine, pregnant and married at 17, is also a heroin addict but switches to brown rice, three more husbands and homeopathic remedies at an ashram in Yogaville...
Irish pop music is the art of the drone: the mournful monotone of Enya, U2 and Sinead O'Connor, singing elegies to the millennium. Now comes the Irish quartet CLANNAD (whose lead singer, Maire Brennan, is Enya's sister) and an album, Anam, that has all the right career moves: a duet with U2's Bono, a song from the hit movie Patriot Games. The group merits a listen. Brennan's soprano keenings, in English and Gaelic, are variously backed by cool, Sergio Mendes-style harmonies, a bluesy sax, and a guitar's banshee wailing. But in the tune Harry...
...mixture of wariness, reserve and quiet gumption, finds something more in it, an authentic awareness of the ambiguity of the women's position -- they are being exploited, after all -- which requires a lifetime for her to resolve. That's good, and so is her abrasive relationship with a kid sister (Lori Petty), a pitcher on the team who resents her elder sibling's cool, dispassionate competence...
Although the men's and women's squash teams are probably the least known at Harvard, they are undisputedly the best. Led by squash state Jeremy Fraiberg '92 and his sister Jordanna '94, both teams brought national championships home to Cambridge last season...
Benjamin Mosoetsa lies dead, as his sister grieves, in Boipatong, south of Johannesburg, where 39 black men, women and children were shot and stabbed to death by armed gangs. Killings in other townships near Johannesburg last week brought the week's toll in the continuing political warfare to more than 70 dead. Residents blamed the killings on supporters of the Inkatha Freedom Party, main rival of the African National Congress...