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...Gore Vidal: "Any American who is prepared to run for President should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so." David R. Thiessen Woodstock, Illinois, U.S. Gorby Talks Re your interview with Mikhail Gorbachev [April 10]: Gorbachev was one of the most influential leaders for peace in the 20th century. Although taking the path of peace did not make him a revered figure in Russia, he laid a real foundation for his country to become a dominant economic force in the world. Americans should pay attention to what he said in Time's interview: "America is intoxicated...
...Pharaohs have regularly cajoled and threatened upstream nations to ensure that their tampering did not leave Egyptians dry and hungry. In 1270, the Orthodox Church in Cairo exercised its control over Ethiopia and the Blue Nile by refusing to send a bishop to anoint an Ethiopian King. In the 20th century, Egypt signed a treaty with Britain that essentially gave Cairo full control over the Nile's waters. Much to its neighbors' disgust, Egypt held them to the pact even after they gained independence from Britain. As recently as the 1970s, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat warned that "any action that...
...your interview with Mikhail Gorbachev [April 10]: Gorbachev was one of the most influential leaders for peace in the 20th century. Americans should pay attention to what he said in TIME's interview: "America is intoxicated by its position as the world's only superpower. It wants to impose its will. But America needs to get over that. It has responsibilities as well as power." We Americans need to change our posture...
...professionally-choreographed pieces that runs tonight and Saturday at the Harvard Dance Center.Susan Larson, producer of the “Dancers’ Viewpointe VI” and administrator of the Harvard dance program, describes the composition of the varied program as a gathering of all the great 20th century American choreographers.“We were looking at the wonderful guest choreographers we were going to have access to this year and the works of great masters they had danced for, and we realized we had almost the entire 20th century covered in great American dance works...
Boston’s question is a good one: Harvard, and other East Coast programs like it, has benefited greatly from a format it helped create and continue in the late 1800s and early 20th century...