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Still, not even they can detract from the brilliant achievements of de Kooning's earlier years. An American Picasso? Surely not. But there was no European de Kooning either...
...story on Deng Xiaoping, the heroic Chinese leader whose vision, guts, iron will and economic reforms helped modernize his country and ensure Asia-Pacific progress [THE NEXT CHINA, March 3]. History will remember Deng along with Emperor Shih Huang-Ti and Mao Zedong, statesmen whose human flaws should not detract from their many far-reaching achievements. Deng's success in reforming China has as its legacy Asian prosperity, free enterprise, peace and stability. WILSON Y. LEE FLORES Quezon City, the Philippines...
...they asked for public restrooms, and a tenant who would hire from within the community, run a clean operation and not detract from other business in the Square...
Regardless of their size, sections will not provide a productive learning environment if they are led by poor teaching fellows. Teaching fellows serve as students' primary human link to the course and the material; large sections and poor teaching equally detract from this relationship. While smaller sections would be a favorable change, the quality of section leaders should not be neglected in order to lower the number of students in each class...
...rewards reaped from his or her class. I thought that taking African-American Studies 137y: "The African-American Literary Tradition" with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. this semester would be equivalent to taking "The Bible and its Interpreters" with Maimonides, but I found instead that Gates' popularity and acclaim ultimately detract from the content of his course...