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...political leaders, both in the region and among their superpower allies, having the courage and vision of Sadat. In his interviews with such figures as Arafat and Syrian President Hafez Assad, neither known for his dedication to the peace process, Carter tries to give the impression that the current crop of Middle Eastern leaders have more than a slight interest in working to end the socio-political conflicts. Assad, for interested in my efforts to arrange peace negotiation," an appraisal which might surprise those who have dealt with the Syrian leader...
Last week the couple signed over the $115,000 ranch in an unusual deal that may presage further land confiscations. In exchange for the ranch, the U.S. Government will drop charges against the Kurus. Federal agents think such seizures could crimp California's estimated $2 billion annual pot crop. Said Bill Ruzzamenti, state coordinator of marijuana control for the Drug Enforcement Administration: "This year things will be different in the marijuana-eradication business...
...Uzbekistan, scene of a recent anticorruption drive, investigators discovered that much of the claimed 6 million-ton annual cotton crop existed only on paper. Farm officials were paying off bureaucrats at cotton-collection points in exchange for phony receipts acknowledging delivery of their crops. Bribes were also paid to employees of local cotton gins as the noncotton was nonprocessed. One result: while the announced volume of Uzbekistan's cotton harvest has increased over the past eight years, the amount of cotton fiber actually obtained has declined by 76,000 tons...
...closed an important chapter of American orchestral history. Before jet travel, conductors routinely spent years in one city, patiently establishing performance traditions; by contrast, a modern music director may lead two or three orchestras at once, allocating only a few weeks a year to each. "This new crop of conductors is marvelously talented, and so eager to make a success in two minutes," Ormandy once said. "There is a very famous one who wants one leg in Berlin, one in London, one hand in Florence, the other in Paris. It can be done, of course, but you must...
More Harvard undergraduates receive honors partly because 80 percent choose to undertake the tutorials and theses required of honors candidates, Ozment said. Maybe more are honors caliber to begin with. "Students who come to us as the pick of the crop across the nation tend to remain such after four years at Harvard," the dean observed. Somewhat more dubiously, Ozment also argued that raising standards could be self-defeating because it would increase the already substantial pressure on professors and teaching fellows to inflate undergraduates' grades...