Word: du
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...Society: Christian Group Serves Community" (Oct. 9, 1985), and the attendant editorial, "Let the Debate Begin," caught our attention. We would like to point out an important omission. There is an active Black/minority organization at Harvard that has published a respected journal for the past two years: The W.E.B. Du Bois Graduate Society. Indeed, we are not the only forum for the scholarly work and opinion of minorities. The Afro-American Studies 1985-86 Lecture Series is but one such endeavour among many. We of the Du Bois Society look forward to our Third Annual Colloquium, to be held...
...paintings in this exhibit were garnered from 38 museums and 19 private collections, according to the exhibit's organizers. The most generous lenders include Paris' Musee d'Orsay (Galerie du Jeu de Paume), which offered 10, and the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Mass., which offered seven. The MFA has also contributed seven works, including "Flowers in a Vase" and "Dance at Bougival...
...also begun to pursue new goals. Under Mao, the people were told that their lives would be enriched if they dedicated themselves to work. Now they are being exhorted to work in order to get rich. "Our government promotes the policy that some will get rich first," says Du Runsheng, the top party adviser on rural affairs. "Then others will get rich. Our final goal is that all people will be rich." The words kuaile, or pleasure, and yule, or recreation, have crept back into the national vocabulary. "Only with an adequate amount of wining and dining, fun and games...
Unlike Ruth-chaser Roger Maris and others under journalistic seige, Rose kept both his hair and humor. The two-a-day press conferences, better attended than some State of the Union messages, raised issues as profound as the soup du jour at Flanigan's on Second Street, hereafter to be known as Pete Rose Way. "I knew chicken noodle was on Tuesday," he said significantly. But that night an 0-for-4 showing got him away from the specials (asparagus) and back to the basics (vegetable). Ron Robinson, a raw Reds pitcher who last spring had fretted that he wouldn...
...addition, Du Plessis announced the reintroduction of the two-tier rand, which was in effect until 1983. Under this system, the U.S. dollar price of the "financial" rand will be set by the central bank and pegged lower than the "commercial" rand. Foreign investors will be able to buy South African stocks at the lower financial rate, but will be required to sell at that rate. The financial rands will not be allowed to leave South Africa, although nonresidents will be free to buy and sell title to them in other countries...