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PRESIDENT Bok called a seven-hour meeting last week and decided to hand a pink slip to one of his employees. The denial of tenure to Assistant Professor of Law Clare Dalton may present many complicated and controversial issues--about standards for tenure and the direction of legal scholarship--but mostly it was a personal statement on the work of one scholar at one school. A verdict on whether a woman hired nine years ago with the near guarantee of a permanent position had met the standards of Harvard Law School...
...Ford's Theater in Washington. Vigorously staged, tuneful and robustly acted, this ambitious work circles outside the characters and never gives them a chance to look deep inside themselves, except in a pair of oblique, cryptic solo songs. Director David H. Bell has let a number of solecisms slip past, including a raunchy Monkey Song about the secret lustfulness of women that is entertaining but out of character for the men of a traveling revival show. Librettist John Bishop links the story's religious excesses too closely to the economic travails of the 1930s. But in Casey Biggs and Sharon...
...slip away," Harvard defenseman Don Sweeney said. "You dig yourself that deep a hole, and it's tough...
Twice, the Crimson jumped to big leads in its ECAC Quarterfinal contest against RPI. Twice, Harvard let those leads slip away...
...every twist and nuance in the poll results. As for the Olympics, world-class competitions in skiing and skating take place even in years not divisible by four -- and are ignored by 98% of the U.S. audience. But with blanket TV coverage for 16 days in Calgary, a tiny slip on the ice suddenly becomes the stuff of national exhilaration or despair...