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...Ralph Waldo Emerson on the duties of the "American Scholar." He delivered an address by that name for the Phi Beta Kappa ceremony here at Harvard in 1837. According to Emerson, the responsibility of the academic is "to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances...
...Amidst the brouhaha over the mayoral selection process, some say they believe the position of mayor is really not that important...
MOSCOW: Russian President Boris Yeltsin named Yevgeny Primakov, a specialist in Middle Eastern affairs and head of Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service, as the country's new foreign minister. In contrast to Andrei Kozyrev, ousted amidst charges from parliament of being too soft toward the West, Primakov is expected to turn the focus of Russia's foreign policy toward the Middle East and the former Soviet republics. "It's clear that Yeltsin wanted to find a successor who would not appear to be pro-Western," says Moscow bureau chief John Kohan. "Since Zhirinovsky and his supporters have put the nationalist...
...appearing on television amidst such hoopla--newspapers covered it like it was as anticipated as Windows 95--Diana, following Charles's own television appearances, had toppled the monarchy off its already wobbly knees and onto the ground, into the dirt with the rest of the adulterous, fetishist, omnivorous masses. Nothing is sacred anymore...
...HAVEN, Conn.--Amidst the pandemonium that took over the Yale Bowl Saturday, there stood one man, only 5'10" tall, but towering over the rest of the field...