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Apparantly, the crimson also knew how to conquer the gusts of wind, while at the same time focusing under difficult conditions...
...have not finished with education. In order to prepare the youth of America for a fair, stable and racially equitable society, education must conquer the discrimination that has hitherto been passed from generation to generation. Prejudice begins in the home--hopefully, we can battle it at school...
...current generation of college students, who can find themselves caught between middle- aged computer whizzes and elementary school kids who seem to have been wired since birth. During the first month of her course, teacher Fulton, who designed the class two years ago, exhorts her students to conquer the Net before they do anything else. They become comfortable using BBSs (bulletin-board systems), IRC (Internet Relay Chat), MUDs (multiple-user dungeons), Usenet newsgroups and such World Wide Web browsers as Mosaic and Gopher. But Fulton also engages them in discussions of related social and political issues such as privacy, universal...
...contrary, argues Oxford historian Theodore Zeldin, things have just started to get interesting. In An Intimate History of Humanity (HarperCollins; 488 pages; $25), he offers a quirky but intellectually dazzling view of our past and future by discussing such subjects as the different ways that nations have tried to conquer fear, the reason that humanity has made more progress in cooking than in making love, and the history of conversation. This last subject is central to Zeldin's book: encounter, he says, is the key to progress...
...lived in London all her life, Bussell is often characterized as having a distinctly American style. That is shorthand for speed, an audacious freedom of movement and an offhand, nonshowy virtuosity-all qualities that make Bussell exhilarating to watch. With such a style, it was inevitable that she would conquer America, and she did so in June 1993 at the gala marking New York City Ballet's Balanchine celebration. To dramatize the international impact of Balanchine's work, artistic director Peter Martins invited some foreign dancers to perform with the company. Bussell was ablaze in the sexy pas de deux...