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...School hope to learn if they believe themselves as able as the faculty to choose the school's leader. Yet students occupied part of Harkness Commons last month to demand that Derrick Bell, a Black professor who later showed up at the sit-in with wine and brie, be given the post. The occupation ended when the administration announced the students' agenda was consistent with the school's aims--but stood firm and refused to promise any of several demanded appointments...
Given the backgrounds of both Amsterdam and Price, a founder of the aggressively upscale Avenue magazine, many observers believe Amsterdam's appointment confirms suspicions that the Post will now be aiming its sights on the Chablis-and-Brie set. Amsterdam talks about improving business coverage, and there are reports that veteran magazine writers such as Dominick Dunne, Pete Hamill and Mimi Sheraton have been invited to write for the paper...
...latter-day comic-book Lois broke off from Superman in 1982 because their relationship, such as it was, "didn't seem to be working anymore." But they remain friends. After a recent rescue, she offered him some white wine and brie. Lois has won a Pulitzer Prize. And she is dating none other than Lex Luthor, the onetime mad scientist, now transformed into the "most powerful man in Metropolis." This is liberation...
...Spain, the two new members of the E.C., put added tariffs on American agricultural exports that would cost U.S. farmers $500 million a year in lost sales. The U.S. responded with a threat to retaliate by July 1 against a host of European consumer items, including Perrier water, Brie cheese and Heineken beer. The E.C. came back with talk of restrictions on more products. Said Sir Roy Denman, the E.C. ambassador to the U.S.: "This is the nearest approach to trade war across the Atlantic I've seen in 35 years...
Over figs, white wine, and the traditional runny brie, author Jay McInerney gave a reading at the Harvard Advocate last night of the works that have earned him the sobriquet "chronicler of yuppie angst...