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...member? Our Moscow bureau chief, John Kohan, asked his secretary to check with the International Department of the Central Committee. The apparatchik there said he had "no idea." Kohan's secretary then called the Committee's General Department, which refused to supply any information. Next she tried a back channel, asking a Soviet magazine editor for the number to call. Kohan then got the answer he needed (249 members) from the Central Committee's Department for Party Building and Cadre Work. Reflecting on that experience, says Kohan, "I have enormous sympathy for Mikhail Gorbachev and the struggles he faces every...
...article yesterday about the media and the Stuart shooting, Emily Rooney was misidentified. She is the news director of WCVB-TV, Channel...
...second possible solution is the tutorial program, a perfect channel for toppling personal barriers between students and faculty. Unfortunately, in some fields (physics is one), an individual tutorial program doesn't even exist. In other concentrations, tutorials are not one-on-one or even two-on-one, but 10 to 20 students per group; hardly a likely venue for personal contact with the tutor. In many more cases, the tutors themselves are not professors at all, but "post-docs" and even graduate students...
...good news is that there are things you can do about it. I don't know how much time you spend glued to the Weather Channel, but here's what I learned watching it one night: it makes sense to run ceiling fans in the winter! Just turn the blades so they push the air down. Instead of cold feet and warm ceilings, a gently rotating fan will even things out so you don't have to turn the heat up so high. (In summer switch the direction of the blades and increase the speed. The wind chill will make...
...nationalistic feelings can be exacerbated." The European Community, Japan and the U.S. can help relieve the ethnic pressures with economic cooperation and technical-aid programs. At a two-day meeting in Paris last week, representatives of 27 Western nations laid the groundwork for a $12 billion development bank to channel loans to emerging private businesses in the Warsaw Pact countries. But money without artful diplomacy will not completely exorcise the ghostly rivalries that increasingly haunt Eastern Europe...