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...call her the grandmother of track and field, but I've heard of Jackie Joyner-Kersee ever since I've been in the sport," said American Jearl Miles, who was in the starting blocks for the 400 meter run when the announcement was made about Joyner-Kersee's withdrawl. "She's someone to look up to and I'm very sorry she can't compete here." -->
...withdrawl of the College's recognition would have deprived PBHA of $750,000 in University funding, thereby crippling many of its major programs...
...unstable Cory, the world outside of the clinic is no more comforting. Ghoulish faces stencilled in silver all over the walls haunt her. Not even the smooth, bad-ass lingo of her friend 9eyes (David Jacobs) can help to calm her down from either a bad trip or serious withdrawl. One such tense moment between 9eyes and Cory is where Sarnat's writing, Gibson's spastic acting and Khamsi's decor work best to explore the depths of madness. Still, the scene is symptomatic of how unhelpful the male characters...
...nomination to the position of assistant attorney general in charge of the civil rights division in the Clinton Administration early in 1993. The characterization of her work as "profoundly anti-democratic" and of Guinier herself as a "Quota Queen" by the press, which led eventually to the President's withdrawl of her nomination, can itself be read as a signal of a "national discomfort with the brute facts of racial injustice." At least, this is the interpretation placed on last year's events both by Stephen L. Carter's foreword to the collection, and by Guinier's specially written introduction...
Funny, stimulating, well-written, well-acted: what more could you ask? Winthrop's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern may not be the next Broadway blockbuster, but it provides solid entertainment. If you're suffering from British-wittiness-withdrawl, this show will provide...