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...1958’s Latin salutatorian and class poet, Segal remained at Harvard to earn both a Master’s degree and a Ph.D. in comparative literature. He later taught classics at several other Ivy League institutions, and, after teaching classics at Yale from the 1960s through the 1980s, became an honorary fellow at Oxford University’s Wolfson College...
...criminal offense. Takao Toshikawa, editor of political newsletter Tokyo Insideline, says that Ozawa and his mentors have been fighting various battles with the office since the late 1970s. "At this moment, the Prosecutors Office and Ozawa are fighting the final war," says Toshikawa. (See pictures of Japan in the 1980s and today...
...Indeed, it wasn't until the overthrow of Marcos in the mid-1980s that artists were freed of the burden of representing the Philippines. "After Marcos left, the scene exploded and became plural," says Toh. Ranging from the dark paintings of Javier, whose lonely ash-gray landscapes owe as much to film noir as to Manila's inescapable haze, to the surrealism of Ventura, Philippine art has finally become, as Mashadi puts it, "post-ideological." And it is this mature quality that has caught the attention of the Asian art market. Philippine artists today have scattered in their own interesting...
...gullibility of their readers. The experiment succeeded beyond their wildest expectations. From the moment they ran they story, the papers were inundated with reports of sightings from readers, and the Sub became its own living myth. Cape Town newspapers ran stories about the apocryphal beast well into the late 1980s. Since poor Mr. Skinner's death, the papers and police have been swamped with calls - all false - about body parts washing up on the beach. The point is this: a shark attack teaches us something about the nature of sharks, or at least the nature of a shark...
...longest-serving state leader in Indian history. He presided over sweeping land reforms, lifting millions of farmers out of poverty. "Transforming one-crop land to multicrop land and providing land to the landless was his greatest contribution," says Mohammed Salim, a colleague of Basu's in government. By the 1980s, West Bengal had gone from a famine-plagued state dependent on food subsidies to a surplus grain producer. "But that's where it all ended," says Rajat Roychowdhury, a political analyst based in Kolkata, West Bengal's capital. Resting on its agrarian reforms, the state became a byword for industrial...