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...Romaine who were celebrating their second anniversary on the air. With a bartender mixing martinis in the studio, the scene was suggestive of radio's party days, before Big Radio ate the AM/FM dial, demanded quarterly profit growth and sucked the fun right out of the control booth. Except that a wannabe big corporate entity was footing the bill for the show, broadcast from a gleaming new studio in a Rockefeller Center skyscraper. And the Glamazons were tame compared with the time Romaine invited a male porn star into the studio for a little on-air fun, and curtains...
...life, Oppenheimer would be trailed by the question of whether he was a member of the party too. Bird and Sherwin conclude, with an air of mystery, “we do not, and we cannot, know the extent of his commitment” to the Communist Party, except that it was short-lived. Stalin’s purges clearly left him disillusioned with the Soviet experiment...
Yesterday’s meeting lacked the tension that has characterized past meetings—except for a few brief moments when Professor of Anthropology and of African and African American Studies J. Lorand Matory ’82 asked Summers how he planned to increase the number of non-white administrators and professors and whether Summers had any plans to attempt to lure former Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74 back to Harvard...
...that women simply prefer small classes to large classes. This theory states that the natural sciences mostly have large, impersonal introductory courses and that women get turned off by this and flock to concentrations where every other class is a four-person tutorial. I would find this argument compelling, except that men do not like large classes either. I did a quick poll of several male friends and, with the exception of one senior who favors large classes on the grounds that they are “easier to skip,” the testosterone junkies unanimously preferred small classes...
...become a punchline for late-night comedians; two weeks ago, he was the subject of the lead skit on Saturday Night Live. And one national poll, by Democrat Stan Greenberg, shows DeLay's name recognition at 77%-making him more famous than any other House member in modern history, except Newt Gingrich...