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...writers who have had clothing on their minds-Dickens, Proust and Balzac-Lurie can be cranky, bright, bitchy and as startling as a nudist at a dress ball. The Language of Clothes may never be used as a standard text, but it is ideal for those who want to slip into something more comfortable...
Perhaps the saddest dilemma facing South Florida is the plight of the refugees from Haiti. Law enforcement officials pick up about 500 Haitians a month on Florida's beaches, but probably just as many slip in without getting caught. The 600-mile journey from Haiti is often arduous, a measure of how desperately Haitians want to leave their country. Many sell all their possessions and hire professional smugglers, who often starve them, beat them, or even dump them overboard. Others pool their money to buy a makeshift boat and then hire a local fisherman, who may know little about navigation...
When Yale has the ball, don't let halfback Rich Diana (33), quarterback John Rogan (19) or split end Curtis Grieve (81) slip out of your sight. Because just as quick as you lose them they can slip into the end zone...
...Behalf of the Humanities" serves as both a chastisement of humanities faculties for allowing standards to slip, and a series of recommendations for coping with economic pressures. He calls for organization of interdisciplinary programs which place language in a historical, philosophical or sociological context--"Let the curriculum follow the mind, not restrain it." Clearly Giamatti feels most comfortable when discussing his own field (before assuming Yale's presidency in 1978, he was Whitney professor of English and comparative literature...
Gregg was uncertain about the move at first ("Because of what we saw at Nationals last year, I was a little leery of the program here"), but Dorrance wasn't about to let her slip away. "We wanted her," he says, "so we went after her, and now we're real lucky to have...