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...women pick on Barbara Bush? If anything, the feminist police should give her an award for resisting pressure from every side to slim down, work out, dye her hair, hide her wrinkles or wear clothes no grandchild would dare drool on. Instead the First Lady must be feeling a little like Henry Kissinger, who attracted protests nearly every time he was invited to a college campus. But it's not the secret bombing of Cambodia that has a quarter of the senior class at Wellesley College objecting to the First Lady as speaker at this year's graduation...
...people we now call gay and lesbian is no less pronounced in this country because, by and large, lesbians and gay men do not speak up. Despite a vocal, privileged and empowered minority of lesbians and gay men in status positions, most lesbians and gay men choose to hide their sexual preference. They do so because they feel that, if they "come out of the closet," they will suffer institutional and personal attacks more than they already...
...Hounds could run, but they couldn't hide. The top-ranked Crimson (9-0 overall, 3-0 Ivy) came from three goals behind to vanquishing the home team on its Baltimore turf, 6-5, on a late goal by Jennifer Walser...
Well, all right. When O'Connor was last in the U.S., in 1988, she had shaved her head bald, an attention-grabbing device that suited a time when she could hide behind the intricacies of her songs. Her hair these days is a half-inch black corona of fuzz, but she has never been shy about speaking out. "I would rather be compared to Patti Smith than anybody," she says. "I don't want to be compared to people like Suzanne Vega, because I don't like wishy-washy music." She declines to analyze her own work but is keen...
...positive involvement with the city. On the contrary, we acknowledge and laud such projects as last year's James Taylor benefit concert for homeless citizens. Such events, however, fail to address the deeper problems of affordable housing and too often serve as ornaments for Harvard to point to or hide behind...