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...press conference Saturday in Moscow, Ruth Daniloff seemed to confirm the suspicion that her husband's cellmate was an informer. When Daniloff was about to be released, she said, the Russian "suggested to Nick that he take out some sort of mathematical formula for him." Daniloff declined. Mrs. Daniloff noted that her husband had lost weight -- "His clothes are just hanging on him" -- and that "he is nervously and emotionally exhausted . . . It is sinking in that he is still a hostage." George Shultz put the best face on the arrangement that he could when he told skeptical reporters who packed...
...style received in one stroke the legitimacy it had previously lacked in the United States. True, during this time it was Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, another refugee from the Nazis and a former student of Gropius, who would design the greatest edifices of Modernism according to his famous formula "less is more." But it is doubtful that his buildings would have been so rapidly acclaimed without the implicit approval of Gropius and the Harvard name...
...style received in one stroke the legitimacy it had previously lacked in the United States. True, during this time it was Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, another refugee from the Nazis and a former student of Gropius, who would design the greatest edifices of Modernism according to his famous formula "less is more." But it is doubtful that his buildings would have been so rapidly acclaimed without the implicit approval of Gropius and the Harvard name...
Even with this amendment, "the Constitutional formula for social reform" must still take into account the minorities who had no representation when it was written two hundred years ago, said Derrick Bell, a Harvard law professor...
...agreed to any formula that would take me out of the picture and give Cosima her fair share, including divorce," von Bulow said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press from the Fifth Avenue apartment. "It was turned down categorically. This is confidential information. I can't discuss it more...