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...remainder henceforth will concentrate on economic studies, background investigations of Western & investors and similarly innocuous tasks. General Vadim Kirpichenko, a KGB veteran who is a key adviser to the head of the SVR, says the service intends to behave in a more "civilized" manner and its agents will eschew blackmail, the use of drugs and other traditional techniques employed to compromise and recruit foreign agents...
Leaders of the Islamic Movement, who officially eschew violence, were quick to deplore the killings. But authorities are worried that when they speak and write of the need for a spiritual Jihad, ostensibly a struggle for the soul of the individual believer, their devotees hear in that call a traditional summons for a holy war against non-Muslims, especially the Jews of Israel. "The killings near Galed didn't come out of a vacuum," says Elie Rekhess, an expert on Israeli Arabs at Tel Aviv University...
When viewing the later works of Jasper Johns, Richard Serra, and Willem de Kooning in the current exhibit at Harvard's Arthur M. Sackler Museum, lateness itself assumes striking importance. In contrast to modernists recognized for one definitive style--like Barnett Newman and Pollock--Johns, Serra and de Kooning eschew a signature style, instead favoring a perpetually regenerating dynamism...
Catholic educators are proud that their institutions eschew the shopping- mall approach they see in public high schools, where students shop around for courses among endless electives. Their high schools routinely offer fewer electives and require a heavier load of basics than do inner-city public schools: four years of English; three years or more of math; three years of science, foreign language and social science; and at least one year of computer science. Students must show proficiency in a course before they can move up a grade. Period...
Spending its days in the streets, the lost generation alarms many black community leaders as much as it does white government officials. Perhaps half the urban youth eschew political activism, preferring to loaf, play soccer, drink beer and shoot dice. Thousands upon thousands of others are tough political activists. They seem to roam the townships like so many deputy sheriffs, setting down the law of the street and enforcing it with harsh punishment...