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...when a woman questions whether acts as simple as putting on lipstick or shaving her legs are celebrations of her own femininity/sexuality or proof of her subservience to the dominant male paradigm, it is understandable that these women were torn about their decision...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Debutantes in Our Midst | 3/3/1994 | See Source »

...campaigning this year was characterized by house residents as "nasty." Campaign posters were torn down on a regular basis. In the race for president, posters engaging in personal attacks abounded. For example, one candidate was accused of failing to pay house dues and of not attending committee meetings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: North House Heats Up a Little Too Much | 3/2/1994 | See Source »

Approximately 45 students hoping to prove that Harvard students do not "wallow in apathy and inaction" gathered in the Lamont Forum Room last night to plan a drive to provide relief for war-torn Bosnia...

Author: By Elisabeth A. Mayer, | Title: Fund Drive to Send Relief, Aid to Bosnia | 3/1/1994 | See Source »

...Crows' moody, muted music is designed for the young and lost, as it charts a path of wanderlust and world- weariness that roams somewhere between Kerouac and Prozac. Singer- songwriter Adam Duritz writes about people who are damaged and drifting, their lives fashionably fraying around them like jeans torn out at the knees. "Step out the front door like a ghost," he murmurs on Round Here, "Into the fog where no one notices/ The contrast of white on white." On Perfect Blue Buildings, he sighs, "Gonna get me a little oblivion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taking Wing | 2/14/1994 | See Source »

...still much new evidence of damage to sift through. The University of Southern California's children's hospital had to be evacuated because of structural defects, and it was suggested that the L.A. Coliseum, site of two Olympic Games and home of the Raiders, would have to be torn down. As it turned out, the stadium may well be salvageable -- with $35 million in repairs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Visions for a Shattered City | 2/14/1994 | See Source »

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