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Dates: during 1990-1999
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According to Hasty Pudding cast Vice President Skip C. Sneeringer '94, women are not prohibited from auditioning...

Author: By Vivek Jain, | Title: Woman Auditions For All-Male Show | 12/4/1993 | See Source »

...process of assimilation, while perhaps a bit more hesitant and stressful than at times in the past, still marches on. It might skip a generation, revealing itself eventually, for instance, in the pure Valleyspeak ; of a young Chinese Californian. More often than ever before, though, assimilation in the 1990s arrives through the ultimate cultural immersion of interethnic marriage. In today's diverse America, such marriages are occurring at triple the rate of two decades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America's Immigrant Challenge | 12/2/1993 | See Source »

Once again it is that time when we give up a dining hall meal to the homeless. Here's how it works: You sign up in advance to skip dinner one night, and Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) donates $1.50 to a local food-for-the-homeless program. You go and eat at Chef Chow's, and in addition to the warm massaging of General Gau's Chicken Balls, you have the feeling of charity and sacrifice in your MSG-coated stomach...

Author: By Douglas R. Miller, | Title: Disappointing Results of a Nice Idea | 11/19/1993 | See Source »

Holding all this meta-action together is Skip Sneeringer as the imperious Chairman. On stage the entire performance, Sneeringer is hysterically funny as he tries to keep his cast on course. When a mention of "the ship H.M.S. Pinafore" leads to a chorus of sailors dancing on stage, he fumes at them forgetting their shows confused, shouting, "off, off" as he pushes them off stage. Even when he is merely sipping a glass of wine while watching a scene, his presence adds immeasurably to the show. With witty remarks and remarkable charm, Sneeringer turns an amusing show into a captivating...

Author: By Lori E. Smith, | Title: Drood's Murder Captivates | 11/18/1993 | See Source »

...life lesson: children play with the box; adults care about what's inside. So to Tiffany Ariana Trump, I wish a childhood filled with blue boxes with her first name on them. And if in later life she feels compelled to live up to her first name, may she skip the diamonds and instead open a homey little restaurant. Anyone for Breakfast at Tiffany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Importance of Being Tiffany | 11/15/1993 | See Source »

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