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Men in tights In the latest p.c. backlash, students named Little Hitler and the Beetle don spandex and pummel each other with sleds.
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Mixing it up The author of "Flesh Guitar" celebrates five great cocktail novels.
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Ivory Tower: Who's your daddy? The University of Virginia acknowledges it tracks applicants based on their parents' donor potential.
By Alisa Roth [01/14/00]
One a day, plus irony David Lehman made himself write a poem every day, and "The Daily Mirror" is the jazzy, joyful result.
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"In Glory's Shadow: Shannon Faulkner, the Citadel and a Changing America" by Catherine S. Manegold The reporter who covered the story for the New York Times sheds new light on Faulkner's feminist victory and personal defeat.
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Sweating the big stuff For anti-sweatshop campus agitators, post-'60s activism is trickier than bra-burning.
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