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During World War II in Budapest, the Soros family, Hungarian Jews, became fugitives from Nazi persecution, living under assumed names and at times hiding out in a basement. Soros, his parents and his brother barely survived the war, only to see Hungary fall under the fist of the Soviet Union. It was a harrowing time, yet, in retrospect, a positive one for the young Soros. "Nineteen forty-four was the best year of my life," he maintains. "I was 14 when the world intruded on my life. I was old enough to be aware of what was happening, and young...
...fist fight ensued in which the four youths were punched and kicked in the head, he said. Victims told Cambridge police that the attack, which took place around 2:30 a.m. at the intersection of Mass. Ave. and Bow Streets, was unprovoked...
This time there were no barricades, no marching troops, no calls for strikes or demonstrations. Nevertheless, another hour of truth had come for Boris Yeltsin. Instead of climbing on top of a tank and shaking his fist, he looked into television cameras and spoke in measured tones for 25 minutes. There was no mistaking the import of his words. He was taking the heady, reckless gamble of plunging Russia into a struggle for power as fateful as the one begun by the earlier coup attempt -- and probably even more chaotic...
...unexpected and unprecedented show of political bravado, the leadership of AAA committed the organization to strong positions and demands without consulting the members of the organization. By fist of the officers, AAA has sponsored the public condemnation of "the erroneous and racist" sentiments expressed by Professor Harvey C. Mansfield Jr., issued demands for the development of an ethnic studies requirement under the core curriculum, and called for an official investigation into the role of "institutionalized racism" at Harvard, among other things. We consider these actions--which were initiated and executed with neither general deliberation nor a democratic vote--unrepresentative...
...Wyoming biologist Randy Lewis, man-made analogues of spider silk will be put to an astonishing variety of heavy-duty uses, from reinforcing fibers in aircraft doors to body-hugging suits for downhill skiers. Over the past four years, Lewis has played the attentive host to dozens of fist-size spiders called golden orb weavers, housing them in Plexiglas condominiums, feeding them a daily diet of flies and, every now and then, flipping them on their backs to unravel yards of gossamer thread. The ambitious goal of all this effort: to unravel the secrets of spider silk, a family...