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Vartan Gregorian, newly installed president of Brown University, last week decried the poor quality of America's public schools. An excerpt...
...glasnost, to write about the pitfalls of the new Soviet journalism. Mikhail Zhvanetsky, one the country's most popular and outspoken comedians, penned a monologue for Show Business. Yuri Shchekochikhin, who works for Literaturnaya Gazeta, co-wrote a piece examining perestroika in the provinces. The Books section features an excerpt from The Place of the Skull, the latest novel by one of Gorbachev's favorite authors, Chingiz Aitmatov. Andrei Sinyavsky, an emigre writer who spent almost six years in a Soviet labor camp, contributed an essay reflecting on whether he would move back to Gorbachev's U.S.S.R...
Here's an excerpt from Kennedy's Senate resolution, passed Tuesday, honoring the 1989 NCAA champion Harvard hockey team...
...excerpt, which suggests the possibility of a math-music link, quotes the 17th century mathematician Gottfried Leibniz: "Music is a hidden exercise in arithmetic, of a mind unconscious with dealing with numbers...
Perhaps the beauty of may brother Tom is best expressed in his own words. The following is an excerpt from a speech he delivered to his class at Currier House on Commencement Day last year, which he called the greatest day of his life. He describes how he felt the day the cancer came back after 10 years...