Word: k
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sheryl K. Sandberg '91 has been teaching aerobics for four years. "There are a lot of classes, but they fill up quickly because they are limited to 40 people," Sandberg said, adding that the enrollments were limited last year when engineers determined that more than 40 people in each class made the MAC structurally unsafe...
News Editor for this Issue: Joseph R. Palmore '91 Night Editors: Effie K. Anagnostopoulos '92 Jonathan S. Cohn '91 Brian R. Hecht '92 Maggie S. Tucker '93 Rebecca L. Walkowitz '92 Editorial Page Editor: John L. Larew '91 City/State Editor: Matthew M. Hoffman '91 Sports Editor: Michael R. Grunwald Photo Editor: Debra A. Schafer '92 Business Editor: Michael S. Harwayne...
...evolving subgenre has become reasonably clear. Women, relying on intuition and one another, mobilize to save the planet, or their immediate neighborhoods, from the ravages -- war, pollution, racism, etc. -- wrought by white males. This reformation of human nature usually entails the adoption of older, often Native American, ways. Ursula K. Le Guin's Always Coming Home (1985), an immense novel disguised as an anthropological treatise, contains nearly all the quintessential elements, but significant contributions to the new form have also been made by, among others, Louise Erdrich and Alice Walker...
Like vultures fighting over a corpse, the various factions in Liberia's bloody civil war vowed to continue their armed struggle despite the death of President Samuel K. Doe last week. Since removing Doe was a common goal of the rebels, there was a faint glimmer of hope that his death might open the door to peace. But instead of signaling the end of the carnage, Doe's demise only set the stage for a new contest for military dominance between Prince Yormie Johnson, leader of a several-hundred-member force that captured and killed Doe, and Charles Taylor, head...
...Coetzee's earlier works -- most notably Waiting for the Barbarians and Life & Times of Michael K -- the author designs fictional landscapes where no one evades the tyranny of a system that pits white against black and young against old; everyone is forced to take sides. A central event involves the murder of Bheki, 15, a youth who could have been sired by any of today's black townships. Just days before, Mrs. Curren watched helplessly as Bheki taunted and beat the drunken Vercueil. "How will they treat their own children?" she scolds Florence, her maid and Bheki's mother. "What...