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...selection of a successor for Graduate School of Education Dean Patricia A. Graham is apparently nearing its final stages. Linda Darling-Hammond, a professor at Columbia Teacher's College in New York, is said to be one of the top candidates for the post...
...communism as we have known and hated it is out of the way, perhaps George Bush can now talk unabashedly to Soviet officials about such good old- fashioned values as God, truth and the sanctity of human life. Evangelist Billy Graham, who talked to Boris Yeltsin and Mikhail Gorbachev shortly before the botched coup, returned from the Soviet Union and passed the word to his friend Bush that both men had told him of the need for "some philosophy, some religion, an inner strength" for their society...
...high road, paved by Graham Greene and improved by John le Carre, led to an entirely new kind of literature. The books no longer echoed of national anthems. Instead they suggested T.S. Eliot's Gerontion: "Think/ Neither fear nor courage saves us. Unnatural vices/ Are fathered by our heroism. Virtues/ Are forced upon us by our impudent crimes...
...Henry Miller -- his middle name was Valentine -- was born the day after Christmas, 100 years ago, and spent the next 88 years as a professional enthusiast, making a living out of pleasure and a music out of saying yes. Where an Old World master, like the peerless Graham Greene, could write elegant circles around doubt, hedging belief in with a knot of moral ironies, Miller just went straight to faith. From the first page of his first book, Tropic of Cancer -- "I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive" -- through 50-odd books about...
...idea is simple: Western aid to the prostrate Soviet economy in exchange for a commitment to radical political and economic change. The numbers being bandied about are $20 billion or $30 billion a year, three or four billion of that from the U.S., for five years. "The strategy," write Graham Allison and Robert Blackwill of Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government in the current Foreign Affairs, is to "create incentives for leaders . . . to choose a future consistent with our mutual best interest by promising real assistance for real reform...