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Tanzania are attempting to revive cooperative agreements on trade, customs and transportation that collapsed when Kenya pulled out of the East African Community in 1977. Says U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Chester Crocker: "There are signs on the economic front of agonizing reappraisal. There is a climate of realism that wasn't there five years...
...that had the most Ph.D. historians was the University of Wisconsin, with 70. Harvard was a poor second, with 49. When Murray-Blessing separated the experts into categories such as the Ivy League and the Big Ten, they found insignificant variations in assessments. For instance, the Ivy League rated Chester Arthur lower and Martin Van Buren higher than did the folks in the Big Ten. Only their mothers could care...
...first major production he designed was the 1975 Glyndebourne version of Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress, its libretto by W.H. Auden and Chester Kallman. Hockney, never embarrassed about paying homage to his aesthetic hearth gods, did the whole thing in the manner of Hogarth's engravings of that moral phantasmagoria set in 18th century England, stylizing the sets into crosshatched black-and-white etchings. Their graphic wit and punch reached a memorable climax in the final scene, where poor Tom Rakewell, insane at last, finds himself in Bedlam. The wall is covered with graffiti, each...
...Frontiersman who became a minor patron saint of the Kennedy revisionists was Chester Bowles, the career diplomat. He thought that he had located a central problem with the Kennedy Administration. He feared that it deliberately, almost scornfully, detached pragmatic considerations from a larger moral context. To discuss the morality of actions was evidence of softness, and intellectuals with power in their hands cannot bear to be thought soft. Everyone carried the Munich model around in his head. One talked in laconic codes, a masculine shorthand; one did not, like Adlai Stevenson, deliver fluty soliloquies about the morality...
...strong commitment to education. A Gallup poll shows that 84% of Americans believe that a superior educational system is "very important" to the nation, while only 47% believe that a strong military force is as important. "There is now considerable resolve to see reform through to the end," says Chester Finn, a professor of education and public policy at Vanderbilt University. Yet he warns, "These changes will take some years, and when they happen they will be characteristically American, which is to say, uneven