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Much ink has been spilled in the past few weeks about the University's decision to disregard student community service leaders' recommendation to appoint the current executive director of Phillips Brooks House (PBH), Greg A. Johnson '72, as the new assistant dean for public service. Student indignation was swift, effective and fully appropriate...
...blue-green eyes. She fielded questions easily, even had fun cutting off one of Sam Donaldson's follow-ups. But more revealing than anything she said was the superb little hip check she used to push Powell aside so she could step up to a question--a gesture so swift and subtle few in the audience noticed it, but one that summed up the marital dynamic behind the general's decision. The look on Powell's face said he was used to such tender assertions. Soon after, Alma did it again: she put a gentle hand on her husband...
Triumphant is the best word to describe the atmosphere at Agassiz Theater last Friday night. The new HRDC production of "West Side Story" (directed by Scott Brown, produced by Melissa Swift) takes on the full challenge of the musical--the singing, dancing, scatting, even the blindingly bright costumes--and pulls it off with style. The make-or-break moment comes right at the beginning, when the Jets, snapping in rhythm and looking cool, break into that first pirouette. Not only is it surprisingly graceful, but the six buddy-boys do it with such infectious high spirits that the audience...
...over a year later. Certainly, the student who assassinated Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin on Saturday will be far from any golf course this time next year, and suspected terrorist Timothy McVeigh won't be lying on a beach Punishment for criminals who are so obviously guilty should be swift. It is inexcusable that Simpson has not been humbled...
Tough guys do meditate. Plus, they write about it. Chicago Bulls coach PHIL JACKSON and movie star-martial artist-deodorant endorser CHUCK NORRIS are both releasing books on Zen. In Sacred Hoops: Spiritual Lessons of a Hardwood Warrior, released this month, Jackson--or Swift Eagle, as his friends the Lakota Sioux call him--expounds his theory that in basketball "the mystery of life gets played out night after night" and suggests that the pertinent thing about the Bulls' signature triangle offense is that it "embodies the Zen Christian attitude of selfless awareness." Norris' book, The Secret Power Within, his second...