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Harvard's lesser deans are in charge of making sure your quality of life is acceptable. The College deals with mundane undergraduate concerns such as discipline and housing...
Eyre sought the tour in order to heighten his theater's profile, not least in the U.S., where its lesser rival, the Royal Shakespeare Company, is much better known. McKellen has made it clear that he savors the family feeling of a tour and welcomes the chance to proselytize widely for gay rights. Fortunately for audiences, whatever their other agendas, the two creators still see to it that the play's the thing...
...past few years have also seen the emergence of a new sort of TV family: the grungy, dysfunctional clans of Married with Children, The Simpsons and (to a lesser degree) Roseanne. All have, at one time or another, been attacked by the family-values police. Married with Children was the chief target of Michigan housewife Terry Rakolta's 1989 campaign to clean up television. Roseanne Arnold has drawn fire for her crude behavior both on and off camera. President Bush told a group of religious broadcasters in January, "We need a nation closer to The Waltons than The Simpsons...
...finally gave Rodney King a face and a voice -- a hesitant, almost sobbing voice that yet was more eloquent than any other that spoke during the terrible week. "Stop making it horrible," King pleaded with the rioters who had been doing just that in Los Angeles -- and to a lesser extent in San Francisco, Atlanta, Seattle, Pittsburgh and other cities. He sounded almost dazed by the violence that followed a jury's acquittal of the cops who had beaten him: the killing, burning and looting, he muttered, were "just not right . . . just not right." As to black-white relations...
...where we all must start -- demands that the President move far beyond last week's speech to articulate what everyone knows: in a country that each day reveals itself as two nations, where almost everyone sees race first and the individual second, where there still exist children of a lesser god, the Simi Valley verdict is perfectly explicable -- not as a fair consideration of the evidence but as an expression of fear. The argument that won acquittal played to that fear -- the defense's clever evocation of the "thin blue line" that "alone" staves off chaos. "The jury's message...