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DANCE How Peter Martins woke up a Sleeping Beauty...
...Room in Weld Hall: Check out the cracks in the window frames. A continual blast of icy air flows through the walls here, keeping the entire dormitory in subarctic conditions. One particularly cold morning in January--I swear I am not making this up--I woke up to find that my shampoo had frozen...
...darkest months of the Gulf War, some of the most gruesome film footage shown on the evening news ironically took place not in the Persian Gulf but right here at home. The image of Los Angeles police officers last month brutally beating a defenseless citizen, Rodney King, woke the nation out of its post-Iraq euphoria and showed us the savage side of human nature. The picture of King's bruised face was comparable to the Iraqis' display of allied prisoners of war in the disgust and horror they both evoked...
...fourth- floor apartment. Neighbors say her aunt works nights in a nearby factory and recently has been ill. On at least two occasions, according to the police, her 21-year-old cousin Clarence Perry had sex with the girl when they were alone. On Thursday last week, neighbors woke up to discover the young Perry threatening to jump off the rooftop. "It was my baby!" Perry yelled. "Let me take care of this. Leave me alone." The police pulled him down, arrested him and charged him with statutory rape...
...began in the 1940s, saw more than 5 million blacks move from the farms and small towns of the South to the cities of the North. Because it took place entirely within U.S. borders, that second massive relocation slipped by with less notice than the first, until the nation woke to find itself transformed. By the time their numbers had tapered off, around 1970, many of the travelers were embarked upon another journey -- up the ladder of class advancement. But almost as many were rattling in the dungeons of the underclass, causing reverberations throughout American life...