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...country he had helped to make a superpower were rebuffed. By the 1960s, Sakharov was both an oft-decorated Hero of the Soviet Union and an increasingly astute figure politically, moving "toward purer science and toward the highly impure world of social activism." He became an outspoken critic of repression, an intervener on behalf of dissidents and a force within the nascent Soviet human- rights movement. Years were marked by highs and lows: in 1968, Sakharov was barred from all military research; in 1972, he married his soulmate and second wife, the activist Elena Bonner; in 1975, he was awarded...
Associate Professor of Linguistics Bert Vaux, who has been a vocal critic of Harvard’s tenure process since he was told in January that the Linguistics department did not wish to tenure a professor in his area, says that faculty must weigh Harvard’s draws against its “insane bureaucratic system...
Americans who consider themselves sophisticated about sex may nevertheless be startled by the graphic content of The Sexual Life of Catherine M. (Grove Press; 209 pages). Not to worry. The memoir by Parisian art critic and magazine editor Catherine Millet managed to shock even the French...
...quite. Yeoh was outshone by Hollywood's Sharon Stone, just recovered from a brain hemorrhage and still the paparazzi's favorite playmate. Devdas, a three-hour romantic phantasmagoria, got little indulgence from the international critics. Though they sat obediently through dozens of mopey minimalist movies, and one with a brutal nine-minute rape scene, they had a low threshold of pain for a pretty film with pretty people singing of love and loss; exactly one critic (this one) was there at the end. As for Chihwaseon, one insider announced a few hours before the awards ceremony that the jury...
...jokes seem impromptu, the serious part of the script is more predictable. Bono hopes to convince O'Neill that wealthy countries should dramatically increase foreign assistance to Africa; O'Neill , a frequent critic of aid money that he claims is wasted, wants to make sure that future US commitments are well-spent. At each stop, Bono presses for more aid, particularly from the US. And at each stop, O'Neill demurs. "I think Paul O'Neill is going to be a very different person going out of this trip than he was coming in," Bono told TIME after a visit...