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January transfers have a significantly higher success rate than fall applications. Housing Officer Lisa M. Colvin says that there are usually more students enrolled in the College in the fall because more people tend to take the spring semester off, crowding the houses in the fall...
...despite the pleas of his wife Tekmessa (Jenny Bader) and his sailors, who form the traditional chorus. Bader is a delight as she reveals the long-hidden pleasures of screaming in anguish, but the chorus are a mixed lot. The women sailors ("Oh, no!" cries my friend the purist) tend to chew the scenery; the men are wooden. All seem incongruous, with their Japanese baseball uniform-style costumes and their song-and-dance routines. My friend the purist says that there would have been music and dancing in the original, but I wonder if they would have resembled Yannis Arzimanoglou...
Davis claims that laymen tend to exaggerate the power, and hence the potential danger, of genetic engineering, particularly when it is applied to animals. "While we can change DNA at will in the test tube, we can't change the animals," he says, simply because their genetics is so complex. Consequently, Davis concludes, "we won't be making creatures with four legs and wings...
...biggest business in the country," says Helen Suzman, with a touch of exaggeration and a touch of bitterness. Now entering her 34th year as an opposition M.P. (for some of that time the only one), she is among the leaders of the English-speaking minority. Other well-known members tend to pursue different lines of work: Golfer Gary Player, Novelist Nadine Gordimer, Dancer Juliet Prowse, Tennis Player Kevin Curren. "And then the English were just outnumbered by the Afrikaners," Suzman adds, "especially in the civil service...
...English speakers tend generally to be more liberal than Afrikaners on racial questions. In September 1985 Relly and a cohort of other corporate leaders voyaged to the Zambian capital of Lusaka to confer with Oliver Tambo, the exiled president of the African National Congress. Relly later declared, "All of us at that meeting wanted to see a new coherent society based on demonstrable justice and a court-monitored bill of rights." Murray Hofmeyr, incoming chairman of the Johannesburg Chamber of Commerce, has called on South African business leaders to oppose injustice. And Michael Rosholt, chief executive of Barlow Rand, South...