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ALL TOO OFTEN, THE DEEDS OF DIPLOmacy are cloaked in riddles -- especially when their results are likely to embarrass or anger. Jetting back from his recent trip to the countries of the former Soviet Union, U.S. Defense Secretary William Perry trumpeted the Clinton Administration's continuing success in weaning Belarus...
Afrocentrist myths have taken hold in higher education as well, extending beyond black-studies courses. In one of the required multicultural courses for freshmen at Southern Methodist University, for example, the Rev. Clarence Glover, director of intercultural education and minority affairs, tells students that melanin content generates certain emotional reactions...
"Larry has attended just about all themeetings," McGilvrey says. "And he has personallybeen extremely helpful to me. He'sdetail-oriented, and loquacious. He's willing tolet you know."
Playing for Harvard took considerable adjustment for Fraiberg, who had some difficulty getting accustomed to the team-oriented philosophy, since she had been raised by the sport on exclusively-individual competition. But once acclimated to the collegiate system, there was no stopping Fraiberg, both playing and helping her teammates.
Even a devoted admirer like deejay Jonathan Schwartz, though, maintains that the functioning is increasingly hollow. The act is done by rote now, says Schwartz, who is the host of Sinatra-oriented radio shows six days a week on % New York City's WQEW-AM. "The process is so machinelike...