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...Massachusetts, 30 of the state's 155 biotech companies are linked directly to MIT graduates, faculty or technology. Together these compa- nies accounted for 3,200 jobs and $520 million in revenues in 1994--a sizeable chunk of the state's 15,000 biotech jobs and $1.8 billion in revenue...
...potentially explosive unknown in the realignment is the Tokyo prosecutor's office. Its expanding investigation into political corruption has netted five local government officials and 24 construction-compa ny executives on graft charges. Insiders say the prosecutors are closing in on national politicians. Rumors are flying about who may end up as a target for interrogation: not the least frequently named is Ozawa, who was fingered by a construction executive as the recipient of a questionable campaign donation. The furious Shinseito chief has denied any wrongdoing...
Once again, student activism, sans the radicalism of the late 1960s, took center stage. Nathan Glazer, a visiting professor at the time of the initial controversy, and currently an affiliate of the Afro-Am department, responds to the inevitable compa: "The Afro-Am issue of the '60s was much tenser. The political aspect is much milder this time. The department already exists...
Predictably good was the curtain raiser, England's Royal Shakespeare Compa ny in a production of Much Ado About Nothing, which ran through last week...
...many years. Like Spain itself since the death of the Generalissimo, these innocents hurtle into the 20th century with ingenuous vigor. Feasting on suckling pig in Madrid's toniest restaurant or visiting the Valley of the Fallen, Spain's grandiose monument to its Civil War dead, the compañeros loudly dispute the merits of their beliefs: the Gulag vs. the Inquisition; Stalin vs. Judas; Brezhnev vs. Franco. The priest veers toward an ecumenical humanism; the Marxist sighs for a materialistic Utopia. They agree only about the culture that confronts them. Says Quixote: "It's an absurd...