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What Lieberman proposes is a merger of the 600,000 National Education Association and the 55,000-member American Federation of Teachers. In present form, he argues, neither group serves teachers or the public. It is "a national tragedy" that the N.E.A. ("low in aim and weak in execution") is...
Whose Version? Unhappily aware that Eden's most controversial charges-those dealing with Dulles' role in the Suez crisis-were still to come, most U.S. and British officials last week tactfully avoided comment on the memoirs. A notable exception was Dwight Eisenhower who at his weekly press conference...
From the opening tableau of the Gentlemen of Japan, looking like refugees from the Kabuki dancers, the staging is in every way impressive. Aided by a magnificent set by James Peters, Sarah Sweezy's beautiful costumes, and choreography by Elizabeth Theiler, the visual aspect of the play is quite stunning...
Not since 1798, when the Rev. Thomas Malthus gloomily concluded that "the power of population is indefinitely greater than the power of the earth to produce subsistence for man," had Western statesmen and thinkers been so preoccupied with the physical problem of feeding the world's people. At the...
Mahmud knew that he must pay for his crime. He rose in his prison cell at 3:30 on the morning of the day he was to be hanged. He made his religious ablutions by washing his arms, face and the insteps of his feet, prayed with the prison mullah...