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Peter C. Meinig, chairman of Cornell’s Board of Trustees, said in an interview with Inside Higher Ed that he appreciated Lehman’s decision to resign. He also noted that Lehman had been speaking with the Board about their differences for several months...
DIED. Myron Cohen, 83, stand-up comic who was a star on the Las Vegas, Atlantic City and Catskill Borscht Belt circuit for 40 years, and a favorite of TV audiences on the old Ed Sullivan hour and the Tonight show; after a heart attack; in Nyack, N.Y. A onetime salesman in New York City's garment district, Cohen specialized in dialect stories and ethnic jokes that were sometimes blue, usually hilarious, but always gentle...
...says Republican Sage John Sears, who managed Reagan's candidacy early in the 1980 race. "It is all a function of people recognizing George Bush's weakness." A Laxalt candidacy could underline that weakness and block any chance Bush has of getting tangible support from Reagan. Moreover, the redoubtable Ed Rollins, campaign director of the Reagan-Bush organization in 1984 and one of the co-chairmen of Bush's political-action committee, would jump if Laxalt declared. "Paul Laxalt is a close friend of mine," says Rollins, "and if he chooses to run for President, I'll be part...
...dreams--and have willingly induced a drowsy semiconsciousness in audiences. Martha Clarke, a former modern dancer with the Pilobolus troupe, has traversed similar terrain in The Garden of Earthly Delights, echoing the Hieronymus Bosch painting that hangs in Madrid's Prado, and now in Vienna: Lusthaus, a fragment ed evocation of a city in moral decay and concealed emotional turmoil during the years leading up to World...
...Democrats are under siege in the West and South, the regions likely to benefit from reapportionment. In California, bland but durable Republican incumbent George Deukmejian looks unbeatable, and G.O.P. candidates are strong in New Mexico and Oregon. Three Western states are losing popular Democratic incumbents--Bruce Babbitt of Arizona, Ed Herschler of Wyoming and Richard Lamm of Colorado--leaving Republican challengers with at least an even chance of victory...