Word: transformation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard officials announce they have received a $7 million gift to transform the basement of Memorial Hall into a student center. The money, from philanthropist Katherine Bogdonovich Loker, will help the larger project of converting Memorial Hall into a first-year dining hall that is also a Commons, home to rehearsal space and social space. The gift is heralded by deans, but some students and house masters have concerns about how the new commons, expected to open in September 1995, will affect the house system...
They plan to transform the basement of Memorial Hall into a large student center called the Loker Commons, which will feature a coffee house, a pizzeria, activity rooms and meeting rooms. The project was conceived in response to student complaints about a dearth of recreational space...
...opponents of doctor-assisted suicide. By operating outside the law, they say, doctors like Kevorkian go unregulated, unsupervised, abiding only by those safeguards they impose on themselves. They alone make judgments about the patient's state of mind; about what means, short of death, might relieve the suffering. They transform the image of the doctor from pure, emphatic healer to something more ambiguous, even sinister, whose purpose at the patient's bedside is no longer clear...
...Godmother calls on her numerous helpers which include four male dragonflies and four fairies, one for each season, to transform Cinderella. The added scene involving beautiful set changes and an increased musical pace creates a sense of the fantastic in the overlap between the real and the sublime. The angular movements of the dragonflies add a modern touch to this scene and the spectacular performances by the four season fairies carry the first...
...life. What has changed, though, may be the willingness of Italians to do something about it. Voters will go to the polls this Sunday to register their outrage in a referendum on their discredited political system. A si vote -- widely expected -- will not undo decades of corruption or transform the political landscape overnight, but supporters of reform argue that the referendum is the best way to begin the difficult passage toward a more responsive -- and responsible -- political order. "If the yes vote wins, it will not mean a magic wand is waved against all the problems of Italy," said Mario...