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...mumbled in that awkward student way. "And, you all want to study Shakespeare with me?" Yes again. When he further discovered that most of us were seniors, he chuckled and hollered out, "Well, I cannot send a senior from this Yard who has been denied the chance to study Shakespeare. I'm not sure what to do, but I sure can't do that." So, instead of teaching just one seminar, Richard invited the leftover half of us into his home. Every Monday evening we met to talk and think and write and study Shakespeare. I have never...
...Mazariegos says she cannot find any forum for her grievance against Harvard outside of the University's own channels...
Republicans may have rejected the test-ban treaty, as you argue, because they cannot shake Clinton on domestic issues but they can successfully challenge him on relatively less important (from an American perspective) foreign policy issues. Big mistake. This treaty mattered a lot more than some sordid affair for which the Republican right failed to exact retribution. No doubt Europe and Asia will pay the price of American schoolyard politics in the near future through nuclear testing and proliferation. Watch out, Congress. Today Pakistan and India. Tomorrow a country that is right next door? PETER MCNAMARA London...
Robert Hughes' graphic account of his accident in Australia made for gripping reading [DISPATCH, Oct. 11]. He said of his near-death experience that Jesus "didn't show." But one cannot expect to find Christ in death if one has not known him in life. MARIUS J. DE WAAL Stellenbosch, South Africa...
Also close to reality are the so-called antiangiogenic factors, relatively nontoxic compounds that inhibit the growth of new capillaries. The idea behind this new class of drugs is that tumors cannot grow bigger than a few hundred thousand cells--about the size of a peppercorn--without growing their own blood-supply system. Researchers and patients, not to mention the owners of stock in half a dozen biotech companies, are eagerly awaiting results of clinical trials of antiangiogenic factors, which might be used in combination with chemotherapy to knock down big tumors and then prevent any surviving tumors from growing...