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...know if there are any bridges left standing. It is going to be a very, very slow process. We also have got to examine the resources available to the department. The city is facing a $150 million deficit. There was an initial budget request that would have reduced the department by 700 people by this time next year. I certainly hope that doesn't occur. If the demands for service and the demands for change go up -- and they are clearly going to go up -- and your resources to deliver those services go down, there is going to be further...
Upon Jones' request, the HRDC executive board looked into the matter. After separately meeting with the director, producer's and actor to hear their version of events, the board decided that the director and producer's actions constituted an infringement of casting policy. Consequently, both Inwood and Lin have been banned by the board from putting on shows next semester at the Loeb's Mainstage or Experimental theaters, the two most coveted and prestigious locations to have an HRDC show...
...writting in response to students' request for clear statements from members of the administration regarding the language used in Peninsula's advertisement of an event they first called "Spade Kicks: the Negro as a Paradigm of Sexual Liberation...
...glamorous customers, like Sophia Loren, the Duchess of Windsor (who, he said, had perfect feet) and Ava Gardner. He was an artist for hire who worked for the new royalty of the 20th century: movie stars and socialites. Such clients tested his ingenuity. To fulfill the request of an Indian princess, he once fabricated a shoe of hummingbird feathers. But Ferragamo asserted that he was designing shoes not for the personality of the customer but the personality of the age. James Laver, the influential English fashion theorist, wrote that all significant fashion shares three qualities: utility, status and seductiveness. Ferragamo...
Finally, Gates' request is a limited one, and it's a dismal comment on the state of academia that he has to pose it. "Equal access to the arts and the humanities, broadly reconceived, is the most important cultural project upon which we can embark." Gates simply wants equal access to the institutions which perpetuate human culture. there's no call for separatism in his writing. He doesn't give an inch to Jeffriesism, which can only "drown out critical inquiry...