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“Daphne du Maurier, Haunted Heiress”
Nina Auerbach 192 pages; $24.95 cloth “My experience with Daphne du Maurier has always been the same. I devour her, leave her, and vaguely decide that she satisfied some immature neurotic need in me that I no longer have. Then some years later I read her again and I fall into her world. . . . She’s a complex, powerful, unique writer, so unorthodox that no critical tradition, from formalism to feminism, can digest her.”
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Panel examines experimental college
As the School of Arts and Sciences feels its way towards a new curriculum, it might be helpful to learn from earlier efforts to transform undergraduate education. With this in mind, more than 50 students and faculty packed Kelly Writers House Nov. 8 to hear about one of those earlier reforms and review it in a modern context.
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Penn grows the region
A new study of Penn’s impact on the Philadelphia and Pennsylvania economy shows that the University is one of the region’s — and the state’s — main engines of growth.
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People do make the difference
Flo Griffin, manager of finance and administration in Public Safety, donates blood, time and money to the Red Cross and numerous organizations serving children. She was also a beneficiary of the Red Cross’ work during Hurricane Floyd, when she had to stay in a Red Cross shelter in Darby. “Experiencing that first-hand gave me a heightened sense of awareness” of what the Red Cross does, she said. She has since received a pin for donating more than four gallons of blood, and is well on the way to her fifth.
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A better Viagra?
Who would have thought impotence could ever be so chic? Once a subject to be discussed only in hushed tones, the release of the erectile dysfunction drug Viagra has made impotence a hot topic. Impotence affects half of the male population over 40, according to a 1994 study. Now it seems a promising new treatment may be underway. David Christianson, Edmund and Louise Kahn Professor of Chemistry, and three collaborators have published a paper in the Nov. 1 edition of the journal Nature Structural Biology on a potential impotence drug that may work where Viagra does not.
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Sweet stuff and Sting
Like the rest of us this time of year, the folks at “The World Cafe” are caught up in the holiday frenzy, and had only enough time to give us a brief sampling of what’s coming up over the next month. But that sample is enough to show that it’s going to be a swingin’ season. Here’s what’s up for the next week or so; after that — well, tune in and find out. Thursday, Dec. 2 Ethereal folk-popsters The Innocence Mission perform music from their new album “Birds of My Neighborhood”
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Kathryn Kolbert
A new radio show about constitutional law has become an unlikely hit. The first 13 episodes of “Justice Talking” were so successful that it was picked up by 47 public radio stations — more than double the number the production team at the Annenberg Public Policy Center (APPC) had expected.
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Partners in crime (prevention)
In her keynote speech for the Nov. 18 Justice Department symposium convened at Penn, U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno both praised local efforts to fight crime and raised a cry for the need to do more. “Philadelphia is a wonderful city,” Reno began, to enthusiastic applause in the ballroom at the Inn at Penn. She exhorted her audience to “bring the spirit of Philadelphia to every community in this nation.” Reno emphasized the importance of job training, mentoring youth and establishing programs for ex-offenders re-entering society.
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Donald Trump plays hardball
“Boy, do I love Wharton,” said would-be presidential candidate Donald Trump (W’68). He was greeted by a roar from the 1,200-person Wharton-friendly crowd in Irvine Auditorium, where we went to hear “The Donald” at a Nov.18 taping of the MSNBC show “Hardball with Chris Matthews. “ Matthews asked the money question right off. “Are you running for president?” Trump answered, “I am indeed [long pause]...perhaps.”
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Three faces of hate
Hate was November’s hot topic in discussions on campus. Here are excerpts from three of them: Class hatred in Japan You probably look at me and wonder what makes me special as a Burakumin [a despised class in Japan]. The truth is the average person in Japan would not be able to look at me and see anything different either. … I would like to give four concrete examples of different systems and lifestyles of the Burakumin.