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...this past sports year was characterized more by change than by results. Long after the wins and losses are forgotten, long after the trophies are locked away in some hidden case, the old familiar faces that left the Harvard community--as well as the new vibrant faces that gave life to sputtering programs--will be remembered...
...Bill Clinton; after all, the president is a man of his generation. Beginning with the baby-bloomers, Americans have developed a very different set of assumptions about the relative weight of debate and action. Holdovers from the generation before Clinton's knew a United States that still had a vibrant manufacturing sector; they remember an America that made things. For the baby boomers, the service sector represents the essence of the country's productive life. And in a service culture, the divide between thought and action is much less clear. The closest many people of Clinton's age and education...
...Busch- Reisinger's exhibition, with 31 works is small enough to be manageable, yet large enough to present the different stages and themes of his work. These well-chosen pices make for a suitably vibrant introduction to a daring artist...
...travel in the holds of slave ships to be deposited in West Indian plantations. Their displacement makes them uneasy storytellers and unreliable narrators, but it also heightens their awareness of their surroundings. They pay close attention, and even when they misinterpret what they see, their observations have a nervous, vibrant edge...
Before the riot, the poor could at least gain a toehold in neighborhoods like the one at 14th and U streets in Northwest Washington, where the violence began. Though the district had faded badly from its heyday in the 1940s, when it ranked among the most vibrant black communities in the nation, it still had movie theaters, nightclubs and scores of thriving businesses. True, schools were slipping, crime was getting worse and some of the more affluent residents had moved away. But most of the area's hardworking families had no intention of abandoning one of the few relatively decent...