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...invite a wider sphere of the Harvard-Radcliffe community to exchange information through this network." Bloomfield said...
...flash won kudos. Last year's top novice was Kevin Smith, with his clever, scratchy comedy Clerks. Now these twentysomething phenoms are flouting the sophomore slump--the Hugheses with the epic-size Dead Presidents, Smith with the loosey-goosey comedy Mallrats. Joining them in the ambition to reach a wider audience is gay cult fave Gregg Araki, who gives his new tragi-comedy, The Doom Generation, the cunning subtitle "a heterosexual movie." The director of the homo-erratic dramas The Living End and Totally F***ed Up is itching to break out, on his own terms. But straight...
Such failures make up only isolated counts of a wider indictment. British journalist Rosemary Righter, whose new book critiquing the U.N. is called Utopia Lost, notes that the planetary problem solver figured as a mere bystander in the climactic upheaval of the past 50 years: the Soviet empire's collapse, Germany's unification and the cold war's end. She says, "This was probably the greatest political challenge of this decade, yet it didn't occur to the Russians or East Europeans or anyone else that the U.N. was relevant...
...fighting desperately for what they believe to be "their" homeland, and for freedom from perceived domination by the other side. Sadly, clashes of this nature seem to be increasingly common. The Serbs are especially apprehensive because they know the Muslims of the Balkans, along with those of the wider world, possess the most effective weapon of all in such conflicts--the demographic weapon. Look for the name Kosovo in the news in the future. LLOYD JUDD Oxley, Australia...
...alternative theory currently gaining favor among observers is that the ascent of U.S. Catholic families into the middle class has given sons a wider range of career opportunities. Monsignor Paul Cook, 62, pastor of St. Joseph's, remembers what happened after he sensed his calling to the priesthood: "When I told my parents about my interest when I was 13, they were thrilled. Today a young man is in college, and the parents are paying to have him prepare for engineering or law, and he says he wants to be a priest? More often than not, they...