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Bate termed President Derek C. Bok's failure toapprove Watson's tenure nomination a sympton of "asort of arteriosclerosis" that has beset Harvard'stenure process...
Meanwhile, houses on Florida's eastern coast are beset by another insect immigrant. The Formosan termite, thought to have arrived there aboard a seagoing yacht, forms colonies underground. Its subterranean paths sometimes extend as far as 300 ft. Says Entomologist Nan-Yao Su of the University of Florida's Fort Lauderdale Research and Education Center: "In one instance, in Hallandale, Fla., a single colony had driven foraging tunnels underneath four large condominium buildings and infested each one." The insects chew up virtually anything in their path. Last year downtown Honolulu lost power for half a day after Formosan termites severed...
...another factor: the U.S. trade deficit, which hit a record $148.5 billion last year and is running even higher in 1986. Their purpose seems to be to build support for import-limiting legislation. But the trade deficit has hurt farmers, who have lost foreign markets, and smokestack industries, beset by import competition, far more than service and high-tech businesses...
After 6 1/2 years in Washington, the Reagan Administration is still scandalously divided on whether it really wants a new strategic-arms-cont rol agreement with the Soviet Union and, if it does, just what kind. Increasingly beset by congressional critics, the Administration last week was still struggling to define its policy toward South Africa's repressive white government. Ronald Reagan floats blithely above the bureaucratic battles, apparently unwilling to knock heads, bruise egos and decide the urgent issues. Many officials in the capital deplore the drifting and look for someone to blame. Rather than take on the popular President...
...result is as striking as his celebrated Tartuffe, staged in 1984 at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis and in 1985 at Arena. In that reappraisal, Pintilie awakened contemporary audiences to the play's political dimensions, its defense of civil liberties in a nation beset by conspiracies and denunciations. In Pintilie's free but faithful adaptation of The Wild Duck, the playgoer finds himself immersed in a world of coarse, rapacious robber barons who believe the disgrace in any swindle lies in getting caught. The most pitiable figure imaginable to them is someone who has fallen from luxury. Thus the privation...