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...retaliation, the instructors of the real "Sex," Ruth Moore Professor of Biological Anthropology Irven DeVore and Professor of Psychology Marc D. Hauser for Science B-29, "Human Behavioral Biology" hire a consulting firm to brainstorm ideas for next fall when competition will be "stiff." Suggestions after conducting videotaped focus groups include co-educational lab partners. The required movie will be replaced with "Pheromone Femmes," available only at four minute increments each costing 25 cents. The Core office intervenes for the first time to veto these plans. DeVore and Hauser appeal in the name of "academic freedom...
Remember little Polly Klaas? She was the 12-year-old Petaluma, Calif., girl whisked from a slumber party in 1993 and found murdered two months later. Her father Marc, horrified to learn that her killer was on parole and had attacked children in the past, called for laws making parole less common. He joined with others backing a "three strikes and you're out" law for California--no parole, ever, for those convicted of three felonies. Klaas went on TV, got in the papers, met the President--all within weeks after his daughter's body was found...
...Take Marc Stad '01, for instance, the vice president of the Harvard-Radcliffe College Democrats, who plans on pursuing a political career. "I think that one has a far greater obligation than providing solely for himself and his family; we all must also contribute to our community...
...might well be confused. The unlikely hit Stoppard has co-written with Los Angeles screenwriter Marc Norman is indeed daring--but only in its literary aspirations. Shakespeare in Love boldly imagines young Will, played by Joseph Fiennes, struggling with writer's block and a script called Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate's Daughter, until he falls in love with Viola De Lesseps (Gwyneth Paltrow), who becomes his Juliet. Fact weaves with fantasy, verse with demotic dialect, low comedy with high passion; and as director John Madden puts it, "Who dares put words in Shakespeare's mouth and get away with...
...logic is a little shaky--just because someone is available to be bribed doesn't mean you bribe them--but the facts seem unassailable. I.O.C. executive Marc Hodler, a Swiss lawyer who has lately been acting as the organization's conscience, alleged last month that five to eight of his colleagues had solicited bribes from potential host cities. Hodler then accused the previous winning cities of Atlanta, Nagano and Sydney of corruption--a charge officials in all three cities deny. (A leader of Anchorage's bid effort revealed to the Denver Post that in 1992 and 1994 his committee...