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...When it comes to having intellectual, high-level conversations, women seem to be assumed to be less versed in these things than men," says Marina C. Santini'98, co-managing editor of Perspective. "I think I've spent a certain amount of time trying to prove myself because there were all these men and they were all brilliant and they weren't necessarily going to ask my opinion when it came to something intellectual or the computer or the layout of the magazine or something like that...
Nine years ago, in the aftermath of my own failed suicide, the most astonishing yet reassuring revelation was the number of Senators, Representatives and other high-level officials who came to the hospital and confided to me their own failed efforts to do the same thing at moments when the burdens of their office or the severity of public criticism became too great to bear. We will never really know what drove Admiral Mike Boorda to suicide; I believe it was the convergence of two factors: the medical disorder of depression and an extraordinary sense of honor. Severe clinical depression...
...incarcerated editor a few probing questions. I confess I had some reservations. The famous professor had always been more a distant phenomenon than a close friend. Previous attempts at encounters had always seemed jinxed. In the summer of '63, my family and friends were booked for a high-level seminar with Leary and Richard Alpert at the International Foundation for Internal Freedom's paradise in Zihuatanejo. As we bustled through San Francisco Airport to our Mexicana flight, we saw the headline: DOPE DOCTORS ARRESTED AT MEXICO MANSION. So much for paradise...
Like most Hollywood productions, this is high-level illusion. Geffen, who is gay, lobbied the President to lift the ban on homosexuals in the military. Geffen stands to gain from the crackdown on the Chinese black market in American videos and CDs that his friend Mickey Kantor, the U.S. Trade Representative, negotiated last year. At 53, Geffen loves to talk economic and budgetary policy, and has a personal and professional interest in the culture wars. As a movie producer, he counts on Clinton to keep the morality-in-media debate focused on industry self-regulation. Above all, however, Geffen...
...TOUCHED ON THE ROOT CAUSE OF the problem of storing spent fuel rods: "The Federal Government has never created a storage site for high-level radioactive waste." Why not? Who are the villains? It is we the people, along with our elected representatives. Several sites have been identified as candidates for nuclear-waste storage, but the widespread "not in my backyard" attitude has stopped development of the waste-storage sites for more than 20 years. STEPHEN A. HODGSON, Engineer Galveston, Texas...