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...successful resolution," Lane said last night. "The faculty was very torn but have come together...all the feminists supported it and men who had qualms about freedom supported...

Author: By Alessandra M. Galloni, | Title: Virginia Prohibits Student-Prof. Ties | 4/23/1993 | See Source »

...play with a lament for hometown Athena. The ongoing war with Sparta and the deaths of two, great tragedians, Aeschylus (Howard Miller) and Euripedes (Tanya Bezrah), have left the city in turmoil, Dionysius journeys to the underworld to fetch one of the late, great playwrights to save the war-torn polis...

Author: By Sarah C. Dry, | Title: The Frogs: Aristophanes With Strings Attached | 4/22/1993 | See Source »

...sure, no one counts Japan out, or even very far down. The stumbling economy still stands an outside chance of overtaking the U.S. in total production sometime in the next decade. Though the Liberal Democratic Party is torn by scandal and dissension, no other party or coalition is anywhere near strong enough yet to snatch away all its power. What passes for social protest in Japan might look like placidity elsewhere. A Japanese gripe session is likely to end on the word shoganai (roughly: nothing can be done about it). Though rap music has come to Japan, the most assertive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Goodbye to The Godzilla Myth | 4/19/1993 | See Source »

With his characteristic booster spirit, Ueberroth overestimated what his group could do. He spoke of making the riot-torn parts of the inner city the safest in Los Angeles. Using numbers provided by a study group he commissioned, he set out to raise $5 billion in private-sector investment over five years to bring at least 75,000 jobs to neglected parts of the city. By the group's own definition, that area encompassed 163 sq. mi. with 2.5 million residents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Unhealed Wounds | 4/19/1993 | See Source »

Oppenheimer said AALARM posters have been posted over posters put up by his groups. At the same time, "Almost all of our [AALARM's] posters have been torn down," Wasinger said...

Author: By Steven A. Engel, | Title: AALARM Posters Create Stir | 4/17/1993 | See Source »

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