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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...defend our dining halls and often get a little defensive about food quality. Perhaps it's all just testimony to Harvard's brainwashing capacity (which is pretty damn impressive), but still, I do know people I wouldn't have known otherwise: the large people are friendly. Tapestries, plants, tin foil, and posters can do a pretty good job at disguising the interesting concrete motifs within our rooms. And where else would I live...

Author: By Sarah Jacoby, | Title: We Were The Housing Guinea Pigs | 3/21/1997 | See Source »

...tell it like it is." Desired translation: she's going to be very tough on human rights. Actual translation: she's going to talk very tough on human rights to tin-pot dictators but keep the tone civil with big countries like China, Egypt and Saudi Arabia. Fidel Castro should not expect any change of U.S. policy under a woman who denounces Cuba as an "embarrassment to the western hemisphere." Iraq and Iran will continue to be ostracized by a Secretary who says "their raison d'etre is to destroy the international system." The high-wire act for Albright will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BLUNT BUT FLEXIBLE | 2/17/1997 | See Source »

...group hopes to attract more students than it has in the past by offering a more interdisciplinary forum that crosses cultural and ethnic boundaries, said Tin-Ming L. Hsu '00, co-moderator for the discussion groups...

Author: By Sadie H. Sanchez, | Title: Asian-American Association to Revive Weekly Discussions | 2/11/1997 | See Source »

...program's literature, in the Wizard of AIDS Dorothy is transported to a world threatened by AIDS. Along the way, she meets the Wicked Witch of Needle-Sharing and her sister, the Wicked Witch of Unsafe Sex, and makes friends with the "over-sexed" Scarecrow, the "promiscuous" Tin Babe and the Homosexual Cowardly Lion...

Author: By Caitlin E. Anderson, | Title: PBHA Holds Festive Spring Open House | 2/7/1997 | See Source »

...moment three classics of the American postwar theater are enjoying simultaneous London revivals. Davies (who eventually did direct an acclaimed 1988 National Theatre production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof) has staged a hit revival of Edward Albee's masterpiece, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, starring Diana Rigg and David Suchet. Willie Loman is lugging his valises home once again in a National Theatre production of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman. And veteran director Peter Hall has imported Jessica Lange to play Blanche Dubois (a role she played on Broadway in 1992) and surrounded her with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATER: THE KINDNESS OF FOREIGNERS | 2/3/1997 | See Source »

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