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After suffering a disappointing fourset loss to Cornell Friday night at Helen Newman Hall, the Harvard women's volleyball team rebounded to destroy Columbia Saturday afternoon at Barnard Gymnasium in New York...
Other women's colleges offer similar programs. Many promise applicants "the best of both worlds" through cross-registration arrangements with nearby coed colleges. "This is no cloistered enclave," says Barnard President Ellen Futter. "Our students have an absolutely coeducational life by virtue of our participation in Columbia University." Yet the best women's schools remain shrewdly protective of the special position they occupy in the highly competitive college market. Many educators, and some alumnae as well, believe that schools like Skidmore and Vassar, once bellwether women's colleges, have slipped in both status and educational quality since they decided...
Taxi Driver Marcus Barnard, on his way to visit his newborn son in the hospital, was shot through his windshield. He died instantly. A father and son emerged from a side road with two small girls. Ryan opened fire at the men, leaving the father dead in a puddle of blood. He emptied his gun into the car of a woman and her daughter, killing both. Abdul Khan, 84, was cut down in his garden, dying as his wife cradled his head. Francis Butler was killed while walking his dog. The savagery was as swift as it was deadly...
...Morrow; 190 pages; $15.95), her 13th highly evocative novel about Brother Cadfael, a 12th century monk in the abbey town of Shrewsbury. Like his 20th century soulmate, Father Brown of the G.K. Chesterton stories, Cadfael attractively suggests that the highest act of faith is the use of reason. Robert Barnard, whose mordantly funny one-off mysteries are as good as any currently being produced, has tended to sag in the too cute series featuring Perry Trethowan, a highborn cop. In Cherry Blossom Corpse (Scribners; 213 pages; $14.95), Barnard is back at his malicious best. Perry accompanies his sister...
Interns are chosen by TIME editors from among hundreds of applicants put forward by colleges. Their credentials are impressive. Intern Stephanie Thomas, 21, of Barnard College, has visited Turkey nine times. She wound up writing in the World section. Marta Lavandier, 23, studies photojournalism at the Rochester Institute of Technology. She became a picture researcher. Lisa Kazmier, 21, of Northwestern University, has worked for two daily newspapers. Her task: writing in the Milestones section...