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...agenda was the compromesso storico -the "historic compromise" under which for the first time the Communists seek partnership in an Italian government. As a result of economic disorder and disenchantment over an inept succession of center-left coalition governments dominated by the Christian Democrats, Communist hopes have never been brighter...
...snowstorms, the trees scream in their gnarled bareness, the clouds continue to obscure the fulgent sunshine. Cambridge does not easily shake the remnants of its most brutal season. We become like Gide's immoralist, neglecting our careers, our families, and our lovers in a hedonistic hearkening to a brighter clime and sunnier shore, where mind and body can relax and regenerate...
...sound of the U.S. Bicentennial should be brighter, and it will certainly be native. Only a handful of European composers have been commissioned to write anniversary pieces. Most notable among them: Poland's Krzystof Penderecki, who is doing an opera based on Milton's Paradise Lost for Chicago's Lyric Opera. Right now there are several hundred American composers, some working up to 20 hours a day on music commissioned during and for the Bicentennial. The big names, like Aaron Copland, have been forced to turn down requests by the dozen. With millions available in grants...
After the first round against Columbia, however, things did not look much brighter for Harvard's blade brandishers, as they were down, 2-7. A strong second round rectified matters as Harvard, led by a spectacular epee performance tied the score at nine...
Despite the confident, conservative tone of their advertising, banks are no longer simply depositories and prudent lenders of other people's money. The past decade has seen most major banks turn into high-powered financial conglomerates ardently pursuing the Great God Growth. But with their brighter balance sheets have also come greater risks-a disturbing fact that was dramatically demonstrated in the past year by an unusual string of bank failures in the U.S. and Europe...