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Everyone is familiar with Ronald Reagan's hair, for example. The president is very conscious of his public image and knows that when people look at him, they also see the hair which abuts his face. Thus he has designed his hair to conform to the image he tries to project: large and well-oiled, it says, "This man is head of a large and well-oiled government...
Last week Lyubimov, 69, made his U.S. debut at Washington's Arena Stage with ! a revised Crime and Punishment in English, a language he does not read or speak. To make the stage action conform to the vision in his head -- the standard by which Lyubimov, an auteurist and something of an autocrat, judges success -- he discussed the aims of the piece in Russian with Michael Henry Heim, an associate professor of Slavic languages and literatures at the University of California, Los Angeles, who wrote the English dialogue. Lyubimov then guided the actors through Interpreter Alexander Gelman, who is trained...
...these must conform to a "Request for Proposal" (RFP) issued by St. Paul's building committee. The RFP, which only recently became public, specifies that "the criteria for selection [among the proposals] will be mainly price. Some attention, however, will be given to the type of development proposed, experience and qualifications of the developer, and to the developer's financial strength...
...would think any constitutional issuesbelong to the health of the non-smoker," saidPatricia Kates, president of the MassachusettsGroup Against Smoking Pollution (GASP). She saidthe air in work-places should be regulated for thesame reasons that restaurants must conform tohealth standards. "It will be a good nudge toHarvard to pay attention to the health needs ofthe students and faculty," she added...
...funding whenever such disclosure would be likely to interest readers. Finally, I believe that the rules relating to sponsored research should apply equally to all research carried out by professors while on the Harvard payroll. As a result, I would make the rules clear by redrafting them to conform with this point and with the others previously made...