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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DESIRE AT FULL STRETCH: WILLEM DE KOONING (1904-1997) | 3/31/1997 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 24, 1997 | 3/24/1997 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Adam S. Hickey, | Title: The Defense (Fund) Never Rests Its Case | 3/5/1997 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Noah Oppenheim, | Title: Quality, not Quantity | 3/4/1997 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Daniel M. Suleiman, | Title: (Super) Star-Struck? | 2/26/1997 | See Source »

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