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When I read last week of the passing of Isaiah Berlin, the British philosopher, I instantly thought of a letter received some three-and-a-half years ago welcoming me to Harvard University. The signatory was President Neil L. Rudenstine, and the message was one of preparation: be willing to learn what you have not learned, to think what you have not thought, to do what you have not done. It was the summer before my first year at the College and--as the President told me and some 1,600 other recipients of the mass mailing...
...decided against waiting out a special order. Instead, I ventured to the downtown Barnes & Noble, the largest bookstore in the world at the time, and found one lonesome paperback hidden amidst its gigantic stacks and narrow aisles. Twelve dollars later, I was pleased to make the acquaintance of Isaiah Berlin. (Apologies to all fellow small-bookstore fans for not being able to tell a more pleasant tale of finding that special, most thoughtful and desperately desired book at anything other than a branch of the biggest bookstore chain in the country...
...Spookyworld (Tonight and tomorrow, 7 to 11 p.m. $18.50 per person. Berlin, MA: about a 45 minute drive...
Screen star John Travolta has accused the German government of discriminating against his religion, reports People Daily. Travolta told a mass rally of Scientologists in Berlin protesting Germany's tough stance on their group that there was no excuse for governments to discriminate against religious bodies...
...crowd at 6,500. The group had hoped Travolta, one of the Los Angeles-based religion's most prominent disciples, would personally attend the demonstration. Two other celebrity Scientologists ? "Fatal Attraction" actress Anne Archer and "Shaft" composer Isaac Hayes ? joined the protest march through the streets of Berlin...