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Ushering in the new year, the touring production of Victor/Victoria arrived at the Colonial Theatre with Toni Tennille in the title role made famous by Julie Andrews in both the 1982 movie and the subsequent Broadway production. However, in a decade which has offered some sophisticated, humorous examinations of sexuality and gender, this musical, while mildly amusing, remains stuck in the past, seeming to think the new year...
...PARADISE Toni Morrison's first novel since she won the 1993 Nobel Prize for Literature tells a haunting tale. After the Civil War, nine ex-slaves move their families to the Western territories to found a new community and new lives. Nearly a century later, some of their descendants jointly commit a violent crime. Why? What happened to the dream of paradise? Morrison's soaring, incantatory prose provides the rich, unforgettable answers...
Tuesday's rally at Harvard was one of several held on campuses across the country. Also on Tuesday, 250 Princeton students protested impeachment. On Monday, Nobel laureate Toni Morrison joined 750 New York University (NYU) students in urging the House not to impeach the president...
...John Farley and James Willwerth's report "Dead Teen Walking," the story of a young man who may have been wrongly convicted of murder, won both the Griot (the top award of the evening) and the Public Affairs award. Other TIME winners were stories on Aretha Franklin by Farley, Toni Morrison by Paul Gray, Michael Jordan by Joel Stein, "Kids and Race" by Farley and "Africa Rising" by Johanna McGeary and Marguerite Michaels...
Furthermore, Garcia inaccurately quoted the response to Lydon by Greg Moore, managing editor of The Boston Globe. Moore expressed disdain for Toni Morrison's views, not for Lydon's. And lastly, Lydon did not disagree with a point made by Globe columnist Derrick Z. Jackson, namely that the media tend to portray successful white athletes as intelligent and successful black athletes as physically gifted...