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...women’s center that students have long been advocating opened last night, marking another victory for supporters of women’s issues on campus. The long-awaited and oft-debated women’s center opened in the freshly renovated basement of Canaday B, drawing scores of students to tour the new center and listen to 300th Anniversary University Professor Laurel T. Ulrich’s keynote address...
...calendar of anniversaries, somewhere between Christmas (an annual) and Halley's comet (a demisesquicentennial), there is the biennial. Held in about 60 cities throughout the world, the art biennial (or biennale, to give it the oft-preferred Italian name) affords local and invited international artists a chance to [an error occurred while processing this directive] meet and show off their creations, and provides art lovers with an opportunity to see lots of new work by undiscovered talent. Since about 85% of biennials are government-initiated, there's often a strong community aspect to these events. Instead of disappearing after...
...courses will help you learn to deal with tough ethical questions, and face up to quandaries that enable you to hone your moral compass. Though the MR menu provides a seemingly gourmet spread of professors, readings, and course titles, reality is often more rump roast than filet mignon. The oft-bemoaned core is a product of the 1978 Core Curriculum report, written under the auspices of then (and now) University President Derek C. Bok. The disco era’s original spawn was to be called “Philosophical Analysis.” Then?...
...guessing game that surrounds Harvard’s search for its 28th chief, Brown University President Ruth J. Simmons is an oft-cited contender. But at Brown’s freshman orientation last month, Simmons told a crowd of parents that she intends to stay put in Providence...
...That same caution, in fact, helps explain one of the oft-obscured realities of Israel's military campaign - for all the talk of its incursion into south Lebanon, Israeli forces do not currently control very much of it, and they have intentionally limited their operations to something less than trying to hold ground. So President Bush referred to a fact not yet established on the ground when he insisted on Tuesday - over objections from Lebanon and other Arab governments - that Israel be allowed to maintain control of southern Lebanon until the arrival of an international force...