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...insistently with a final roomful of tatty 19th century artifacts. The one exception is the Baroda carpet, a lavish if gaudy confection of pearls, rubies, emeralds, diamonds and glass beads sewn onto deerskin and silk. From its shimmering surface, the exotic images of the legendary India seem to glint anew...
...Yevtushenko, the Soviet Union's best-known living poet, knows all too well that it is one thing to criticize dead or deposed leaders and quite another to chastise those in power. Last week Yevtushenko, 52, who once was considered a daring anti-Establishment voice in his country, demonstrated anew his recognition of that crucial difference. Pravda, the Communist Party newspaper, published a Yevtushenko poem that condemns the sluggish bureaucracy that General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev repeatedly has blamed for blocking economic progress. Wrote Yevtushenko: "They jammed sticks/ in the wheels of the first locomotive/ to make sure it wouldn...
...higher court. Its 27' page decision, released late Monday by U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals judge Frank M. Coffin, not only reinstated the case, but also will force Skinner to reconsider whether Harvard must reveal confidential information on tenure cases. In his decision, Coffin asked Skinner to review anew Isaac's request and to explain more thoroughly why it was originally denied...
They seem to come from everywhere, for all kinds of reasons, as indeed they always have. "What Alexis de Tocqueville saw in America," John F. Kennedy once wrote, "was a society of immigrants, each of whom had begun life anew, on an equal footing. This was the secret of America: a nation of people with the fresh memory of old traditions who dared to explore new frontiers . . ." It was in memory of Kennedy's urging that the U.S. in 1965 abandoned the quota system that for nearly half a century had preserved the overwhelmingly European character of the nation...
...have reposed in giant sea pods off the Gulf Coast and are now being rejuvenated in the waters of that miracle swimming pool where the old guys take a furtive daily dip. And lo! these senior citizens are of a sudden healthy, frisky and horny. Cancers dissolve, romance blooms anew; fox-trotting arthritics turn into disco dervishes. Wouldn't it be wonderful if decay and death were so easily washed away...