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...American Mind by Allan Bloom, Bellow's late friend and colleague at the University of Chicago. Yet even if It All Adds Up is more an agglomeration of rants than a systematic critique, it is inspiring to watch someone as august and honored as Bellow join the fray with such bareknuckle prose and such a passion for independence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Knocking Away the Pigeons | 5/9/1994 | See Source »

Monitoring in the run up to the elections involved attending mass political rallies and debates and ensuring that the process was correct, no intimidation took place and that party officials were not misinforming their constituents. In the event of a crisis, monitors were expected to leap into the fray and mediate. Only once did I have to do this, when members of the organizing party at a rally got a little hot under the collar at an opposition party which was distributing their party pamphlets within the meeting. In this case, once people had calmed down a little, apologies were...

Author: By Nichola Buekes, | Title: The Elections From the Inside | 5/6/1994 | See Source »

...stop people from fighting who have been born to fight, have fought for generations and actually thrive on fighting. But it can prevent those who want to live in peace from being caught in the fray. When discrimination becomes part of the plan, however, the U.N. will never create a truly just peace...

Author: By Daniel Altman, | Title: Ignoring African Genocide | 4/18/1994 | See Source »

After all was said and done at the NCCA Fencing Championships yesterday at Brandeis, after over seven hours of hard, brutal, ungentlemanly competition, a Harvard man stood above the fray...

Author: By Sean D. Wissman, | Title: Fencer Wins U.S. Championship | 3/19/1994 | See Source »

During the 1960s, even The Crimson jumped into the classic movie fray with its column, "The Theatregoer," which reviewed movies at the Brattle as well as plays in the area...

Author: By Sarah J. Schaffer, | Title: Here's Looking At You, Kids | 3/19/1994 | See Source »

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