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With a yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum, the Boston Ballet is currently performing the American premiere of the Russian classic, "The Pirate" (Le Corsaire). This brilliant and colorful production was aided by a $100,000 grant from The Rudolf Nureyev Foundation, which is dedicated to maintaining public...
This is a nation founded on a tax revolt. No one wants a meddlesome Big Brother tax system that can find your odd sock for you, but it ought to be as capable as American Express or Citicorp. Chiseled above the entrance of the IRS building in Washington is an...
This profusion of connections lends the growing brain exceptional flexibility and resilience. Consider the case of 13-year-old Brandi Binder, who developed such severe epilepsy that surgeons at UCLA had to remove the entire right side of her cortex when she was six. Binder lost virtually all the control...
When it comes to limits that society can reasonably place on free speech, the best known statement by the Supreme Court is from Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, who said that nobody has the right to shout "Fire!" in a crowded theater. More to the point is that nobody in a...
Pierre Salinger's theory that TWA Flight 800 was destroyed accidentally by a missile test-fired from a U.S. naval vessel [NATION, Nov. 25] is not all that questionable in light of the National Transportation Safety Board's inconclusive explanations. It brings me to quote history's most famous fictional...