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Naomi L. Pierce

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Female Fighters

I N THE EARLY 19th century, a woman who married gave up all has property rights, and if she separated


A Beat Collage

Life is a nightmare for most people, who went something else...People went a lesser fake of Beauty...We've seen Beauty face


Battered Books

H ARVARD IS FULL of annoyances during reading and exam periods--besides the exams themselves, of course. Someone always finishes the


Inward Bound

C RITICS, in the guise of defining a new gerue, will often invent a meaningless catchall then watch the rest


Out on His Own

A T THREE A.M., Mass. Ave. held only the spill of streetlights, the occasional cab, and me, walking home. Outside


Art of Artifice

THE MOST SUBTLE STORY TELLERS barely hint at underlying conflicts; instead they use them throughout their stories as sources of


The Poem Is Only Half

T HE BROADEST VALUE of some books lies beyond their main arguments, and such is the case with Anthony Libby's


Boy Meets Girl

T HINGS HAPPEN in movies that just don't happen in what we call real life. Some films afford their audiences


Rockin' Back to L.A.

W hen Noelani Rodriguez, better known as Lonnie plays her bass guitar. She seems the consummate ham some one not