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After two years of intense and often strained negotiations, Radcliffe College agreed to merge with Harvard last spring. The negotiations pitted a Radcliffe delegation bent on preserving the college's identity against Harvard deal makers who wanted to assume full control over undergraduates...
This is really too much--heartthrob Leonardo DiCaprio on your cover [CINEMA, Feb. 21]! Are you bent on targeting the teen market? Of course, there must be coverage of nonpolitical events; nobody is against that. But a cover story using up all that space? In this day and age of unlimited Internet access and an explosion in the number of cable- and satellite-TV channels available, I would expect you to take the lead with in-depth, responsible reporting of important news events that transcend the bubbly charm of Tinseltown. VALENTIN VASILEV Jerusalem...
...Never of an ordinary bent, her intellect was always finding fresh combinations and original perspectives," said John D. Stewart, senior preceptor in music, who knew Vosgerchian for over 30 years. "It was endlessly exciting and rewarding to have such a friend, a conversationalist of great artistry. I cannot possibly express how deeply I will miss that...
JONATHAN MARGOLIS is a British journalist and author who has written bios on subjects from John Cleese to Uri Geller. One of his journalistic sidelines, however, is writing about gadgets and high tech. It was this technological bent, in fact, that led directly to his powerfully affecting story on how telemedicine played a key role in giving hope to a young Albanian man whose face had been shattered by a bullet in Kosovo. Digital cameras, laptops and Internet links transmitted the photos that touched the hearts of the team of volunteer doctors who offered the war victim not just...
...environment. How can we blame a six-year-old who has criminals as role models for his faulty moral compass? Good question. But will it be so much easier to blame him for being morally defective at 16, after another 10 years in that environment? As the twig is bent, the tree is inclined. ("A young child is even more open to cultural and family influence than an older kid," a psychologist told the New York Times. True. But older kids were once young--that is, when they got the firm dispositions, for good or ill, that later resisted social...