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...lange of blue-domed mosques, dun-colored buildings and massive office complexes housing a growing government bureaucracy. Traffic jams are frequent as British-built double-decker buses, government Chevrolets and even donkeys all maneuver for the five bridges that span the Tigris. To break the jams, police assess fines as high as $320 merely for illegal parking on Saaddoun Street, the city's main thoroughfare...
...hard to assess what positive effects the new station, WCVB, and the new ownership, BBI, will have on the television media, or, for that matter, in taking up the informational gap that will no doubt be left by the departure of the Herald-Traveler. Reviews in the Boston Globe and the Phoenix of the new station and its "innovative" programming were mixed. But Robert G. Gardner '48, lecturer on Visual Studies and a member of BBI's board of directors, says that many changes are still in planning, which limits the accuracy of Boston reviews. "The first two months have...
...productive-or unproductive-Government employees were at the beginning of the four-year period. Many taxpayers may suspect that federal agencies can improve their productivity by considerably more than 2% a year and still remain something less than models of efficiency. Also, the task force made no attempt to assess what has caused the rise in output per man-hour. Government officials speculate only that the ever-present specter of budget cuts and hold-downs has forced federal managers to figure out their own ways to get more out of their workers...
...Guggenheim Museum, whose founder bought more than 100 Kandinskys during the 1930s, there has always been a special relationship between the artist and a city he never visited, New York. Next week a major Kandinsky retrospective opens at the Guggenheim, giving New Yorkers and others a further chance to assess this curious, prophetic and rather aloof figure and to see how close to the core of modernism his visions...
...basis of Tuesday's performance alone, Harvard can be rated no better than second to Northeastern, the indoor GBS titlist, but it is difficult to assess the effect of the victory on the Crimson, or its possible result in the Sunday meet on B.C.'s tartan track...