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...Robin MacCormack, a gay assistant to Boston Mayor Kevin White: "I am just one very fortunate person. In those buildings in the financial district and all around the city, there are people who go to work every day wondering: Is this the day I'm going to let something slip? Is this the day I'm going to lose career chances or even my job?' It's a costume party, for gays and straights alike. Sometimes it's come as you are, but most often it's come as you aren...
...wore little more than a slip and a pout as Maggie in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and as the unhappy hooker Gloria Wandrous in Butterfield 8. In Cleopatra, her bangles and baubles barely covered the upper and lower regions of the Nile. What a costume change, then, for Elizabeth Taylor, in private life Mrs. John Warner, wife of the junior Senator from Virginia. Dutifully observing a 62-year-old Senate tradition she might understandably have skipped, Liz donned a Red Cross Gray Ladies' uniform and joined Mrs. Warren Magnuson of Washington and other Senate wives...
...here that Raffi met his rainy Waterloo, as an out-of-play tee shot forced him to take a triple-bogey six. Raffi's only other slip came on the final hole, a long par-five with a Matterhorn of a hillock on the right side of the fairway. Raffi's drive landed on this hump and he took a double-bogey seven. The Win-chester native played the other sixteen holes in an impeccable four-over...
...quick 2-0 lead, the Crimson defense lapsed just long enough for Bowdoin's Katrina Altmaier to slip in and score the Polar Bears' lone goal. From then on the Harvard team used its airtight defense to hold the Bowdoin squad scoreless...
...years later, the lessons of that spring could not be more to the point. A great deal has happened in the decade since that strike, and so it is easy enough to let the message of that time slip out of our minds. Most members of the current senior class were, after all, only in the sixth grade when then-President Nathan M. Pusey '28 ordered in the police; the memory of that day and its aftermath is for them, at best, a muddled one. And so it is convenient to believe those who proclaim that ours is a completely...