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With his neatly trimmed mustache, pursed lips and pince-nez spectacles, Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov seemed the embodiment of "the best filing clerk in Russia," as Revolutionary Leader Vladimir Lenin once called him. But his bland appearance, which led one British diplomat to compare him to a "refrigerator when the lights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov: 1890-1986 Present At the Creation | 11/24/1986 | See Source »

On what basis can one claim that bilingual programs are optimal? Evaluations of bilingual programs, which compare them to immersion programs (in which the children simply are immersed in an English-speaking curriculum) show that bilingual programs produce higher achievement in English, in reading, and in the content areas than...

Author: By Catherine E. Snow, | Title: Bilingual Classes | 11/22/1986 | See Source »

When we compare the numbers of children who are having difficulty with the numbers of adults needing assistance with literacy, we find that they are quite similar. Most adult illiterates were children or young people with reading problems. It would be easier and less costly--in human and in financial...

Author: By Jeanne S. Chall, | Title: Stopping Illiteracy at the Source | 11/22/1986 | See Source »

Director/producers Marci Bobis and Fouad Onbargi deserve the Existentialists Award for Excellence; we must thank them for taking this heavy-handed horror story of Sartre's and making it surprisingly palatable. Embellishing the playwright's original script, Bobis and Onbargi have experimented with a mime troupe of five who periodically...

Author: By Deborah E. Copaken, | Title: Professional Existentialism | 11/21/1986 | See Source »

To see what we mean, compare the results of last Tuesday's election with the results of a Crimson poll on students' political preferences. We think you'll be surprised--even for a George McGovern-voting state like Massachusetts:

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: after the facts | 11/7/1986 | See Source »

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