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...Your proctors are specifically reminded that they cannot promise you confidentiality," says Dean of Freshmen Elizabeth Studley Nathans...
...aptly paired not simply because each comes from one of the documentarian brothers Ken and Ric Burns (The Civil War), but also because both illustrate this paradox. Ken Burns' Not for Ourselves Alone (Nov. 7-8, 8 p.m. E.T.), the story of women suffragists Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, shows we would not be what we are without people fervently, sometimes blindly proselytizing--religiously or otherwise. Ric Burns' New York (Nov. 14-18, 9 p.m. E.T.) answers that neither would we be so without people--and a city--devoted to simple secular success...
...Brooklyn Museum in New York City [ART, Oct. 11] reminds us that there is no easy answer to the question What is art? It often seems that the artistic talent shown in the newspaper's comic-strip section dwarfs many of the efforts of contemporary "artists." MICHAEL LUPPNOW Port Elizabeth, South Africa...
...therapy is finally making major strides--although not the way doctors thought it would. Once they hoped to cure diseases by repairing defective genes. Now it seems a lot easier to determine what proteins the broken genes should be making and replace them instead. Dr. Jeffrey Isner at St. Elizabeth's Medical Center in Boston has achieved remarkable results with a protein called vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF2) in restoring circulation in the legs of diabetics and, more impressively, stimulating new vessel growth in patients with severe heart disease. Says former Eli Lilly chairman Randall Tobias: "The day will come...
...limits as to who may contribute. Their next issue, to be published in the spring of 2000, is themed "Metamorphoses." Work submitted for that issue will be judged in light of its relevance to that theme. Past issues have focused on people such as Seamus Heaney and Elizabeth Bishop and ideas such as love and pleasure. A very professional and polished publication, The Harvard Review has existed in its current incarnation only since the spring of 1992. Dream about getting published here, and in the mean time, just read...