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...Sometimes, as though by a benign but unforeseen planetary conjunction, exhibitions in New York City will light one another up. So it is with the present retrospectives of two of the leading figures of Russian modernism: Kazimir Malevich (1878-1935) at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Liubov Popova (1889-1924) at the Museum of Modern...
...benign reading of Bush's new world order is that with the end of the cold war -- presumably, the end of the old East-West struggle -- the powers of the world can find new configurations. The United Nations may be able at last to fulfill the hopes of its founders as a mechanism for collective security. The gulf crisis, under Bush's masterful organization, brought together an extraordinary new coalition, including the U.S., the Soviet Union, Egypt, Syria and 24 other nations, to confront an outlaw state...
...Tarr's Message Was Offensive," a letter printed in the Crimson on February 16, presented a benign view of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). According to the writers, "the PLO works to secure and guarantee fundamental human rights for Palestinians, including the Palestinian right to self-determination...It does not deny these same rights to the Israeli people...
...says Noel Weidner, a surgical pathologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital and a co-author of the New England Journal paper. Weidner's group is the only one at Harvard--and one of only a few in the world--currently studying angiogenesis, the sudden and dangerous transformation of benign tumors into malignant beasts...
...that proposition seems less clear-cut than it did even a few weeks ago. The horror in Vilnius is a reminder that there is still a lot of trouble, and terror, left in that giant country, not to mention almost 30,000 nuclear weapons. And if Gorbachev's relatively benign foreign policy collapses because of the vicious circle of internal revolt and repression, the West may find itself waging a Cold War II in the coming years. At a minimum, the Soviet Union may be less cooperative in the Security Council the next time Uncle Sam tries to round...