Word: centralization
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...thoughts briefly wandered to ManRay, a gender-bending nightclub in Central Square--only a short walk from Lewis's office in University Hall. There, dress-up parades happen every Friday night. Style-maven Lewis probably doesn't realize it but the club offers a discount at the door for wearing "pleather, latex, pvc, drag, extreme fetish attire or eerie erotic wear." Dr. Know suspects that if the dean's regalia doesn't pass for eerie erotic it will definitely fall under drag. The club is located at 21 Brookline...
...definite plans have been made thus far to find Murphy's replacement, according to Murphy. He said he believes the process will be determined by the central administration over the summer. He said he is not sure whether it will be Rudenstine or the new president to make the final selection...
...veer close to drama. "We find these moments as funny as the gags," says writer Jeremy Dyson. "They're like the things in Glengarry Glen Ross that you find yourself laughing at because they're so awful." (BBC America is currently running the second season; for latecomers, Comedy Central starts carrying the series from the beginning on June...
Such a question occurred a few years ago to James Atlas, 51, who was, oddly enough, working on a long biography of Saul Bellow at the time. (Some 10 years in the making, the book is scheduled for publication this fall.) While jogging in Manhattan's Central Park, Atlas experienced an epiphany: "It seemed to me that there should be short biographies by great writers." A few days later, he mentioned this idea, over cocktails, to an editor at Viking (a division of Penguin Putnam, Inc.), and a project was born. Atlas secured financial backing from Kenneth Lipper, an investment...
...sting of its radiation as far away as France and Sweden, the West was more than happy to pick up the tab for taking Chernobyl offline in December. But the Ukrainian plant's sole surviving reactor is only one of many Soviet-era, RMBK-type reactors still operating throughout Central and Eastern Europe - and that's a problem that'll likely loom for decades. President Leonid Kuchma announced the plant's final closure Monday to coincide with President Clinton's visit to the Ukraine. Washington will provide some $78 million in aid to secure the reactor that blew...