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...couple of these letter express chagrin at Pachter's accusations of director Beth Heller's "racist casting." This kind of response to this kind of statement is understandable, even laudable. But Pachter never makes this accusation. He instead writes that the two Black, non-chorus players were given "degrading roles for Black actors to play." Actress Lenore Jones was given the role of Mama, whom Pachter calls "sick and lecherous," and actor Tym Tombar was given the role of Amos, whom Pachter calls "simple, subservient, and constantly humiliated by his white, adulterous wife...
News Editor for This Issue: Joseph R. Palmore '91 Night Editors: Jonathan S. Cohn '91 Adam K. Goodheart '92 Matthew M. Hoffman '91 John L. Larew '91 Erica L. Werner '94 Feature Editor: Joseph R. Palmore '91 Editorial Editor: Beth L. Pinsker '93 Sports Editors: Peter I. Rosenthal '92 Michael D. Stankiewicz '90-'91 Photo Editor: Ali F. Zaidi '92 Business Editor: Raymond Nomizu '91 Copy Editor: Ivan Oransky...
EDITORIAL SERVICES: Christiana Walford (Director); Jennie Chien, Peter J. Christopoulos, Benjamin Lightman, Beth Bencini Zarcone...
...future, researchers imagine launching molecular missiles that will seek out and destroy the rogue immune cells that cause Type I diabetes. They also envision a vaccine that will rally the immune system against the traitors in its ranks. "Intellectually," says immunologist Dr. Terry Strom of Boston's Beth Israel Hospital, "we are on the right track...
...obese people, cells quickly become sated and sluggish. They reduce their sensitivity to insulin and, thus, their appetite for glucose. To compensate, the pancreas heroically pumps out more and more insulin. Usually it is able to keep up with the work load. As Dr. Jeffrey Flier, an endocrinologist at Beth Israel Hospital, emphasizes, "Most obese people do not have diabetes." In susceptible individuals, however, obesity can overload the system, and insulin-producing cells begin to stop functioning. One intriguing, if controversial, hypothesis suggests that obese people may produce large quantities of amylin, a protein made by the same cells that...