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...average Black family income of the entering freshman student approached the national average in a nation with vast and increasing racial inequality of income. You would think that Harvard would be more concerned with diversity of leadership than with kowtowing to dominant conservative undertow--if you were unfamiliar with Harvard. Concerned students, faculty, and alums at this and other educational institutions should come together to rectify this situation...
...ripped apart." What started out as a tale of female independence veers into romance. Leo awakens Anna to feelings she has never known before: "I became with him, finally, a passionate person." Besotted with her new lover, Anna does not notice that her daughter is being exposed to some unfamiliar experiences. When Leo stays ! over, casual nudity becomes the order of the night. On one occasion, the child comes to their bed while they are making love. On another, when Anna is away at work, Molly watches Leo take a shower; what follows is either a brief, innocent mistake...
Countless times I found myself on the defensive. Critical Asians, Australians and Europeans complained to me as if I were the White House. I was thrust into the unfamiliar role of defending U.S. foreign policy, while in America I would be among those criticizing...
...charges that venal managers at NASA deliberately decided to ignore known problems that endangered the shuttle astronauts. But to cope with its unfamiliar duties in operating a dual-purpose passenger and cargo service, NASA created a decentralized structure that the Rogers commission is expected to criticize. Its headquarters in Washington lost effective control of its operational arms at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, the Kennedy Space Center in Florida and the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. The centers, in turn, seemed uncertain about their relation to one another. At the same time, the private contractors supplying...
...Nuremberg, 1300-1550," on view at New York City's Metropolitan Museum through June 22, is the kind of show that one hopes to see in a great encyclopedic institution like the Met. It is not, in the common show-biz sense, a blockbuster. It takes a fascinating but unfamiliar subject and handles it with immense art- historical skill. It enlarges one's sense of civilization...