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Carlson will join veteran White House correspondent Michael Duffy, who wrote this week's cover story on Clinton's Inauguration. Duffy covered the Pentagon and Congress before being assigned to the White House in 1988. A graduate of Oberlin College, he co-wrote the 1992 book Marching in Place, an analysis of the Bush Administration. (His co-author, Dan Goodgame, will be leaving the White House beat to become TIME's economic correspondent.) Duffy thinks Clinton will preside under more pressure than his predecessor. "Bush basically enjoyed a free ride for three years," he says. "But Clinton will have...
hooks, who is professor of English and women's studies at Oberlin College, said that Black intellectuals have a personal responsibility to live up to the standards they espouse...
Four years ago, Lawrence A. Buell was an English professor at Oberlin College. He was comfortable, established, and involved at Oberlin; he had served there as chair of the English department and dean of a admissions...
Some bisexual women travel a similar path. Sarah Listerud, a member of a large Catholic family, arrived at Oberlin College believing marriage for her was a "given." During her sophomore year, she fell in love with a woman. She had subsequent lesbian liaisons but remained attracted to men. "I thought bisexuality was a phase I was going through before joining the lesbian community," recalls Listerud, now 29 and living in Chicago. But then, she would "bump into a guy in the cafeteria who was really cute or get a crush on a guy. Finally, it was like a little light...
Buell says there are some similarities between the two very different schools. The educational mission of Harvard's house system, for example reminds him of Oberlin's Experimental College, where students, faculty and members of the community can arrange to develop and offer courses outside the regular curriculum...