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With a PBH fund-raising campaign on the horizon, it is more important than ever that the University listens to the public service organization's members, and vice versa. With nearly one-third of students at the College involved in some kind of public service during their time here, it is crucial that Harvard and PBH work together on making the programs stronger than ever. We are glad the tensions have lessened, and we hope to see a PBH in the future that benefits from the expanded infrastructure and puts the disputes of the past behind...
...experimental thickets, trying to hack out a little clearing of enlightenment. Occasionally, however, a Darwin or Einstein comes along and with a flash of insight as blinding as a thermonuclear airburst, clears the entire landscape. Down below, ordinary scientists blink disbelievingly at their sudden ability to see from horizon to horizon. But their sense of wonder is tempered by regret. Tending your tiny patch seems like pulling weeds compared with such intellectual clear cutting...
...horizon are MCI Communications and Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., which have sunk $1.1 billion into their joint global dbs venture, American Sky Broadcasting. This pair love a good marketing punch-up. The company started swinging last month, touting ASkyB's service as "entertainment like nothing on earth." Earth to Rupert: the system is at least two years from launch...
...from its premiere at a tiny Left Bank venue in 1953, Godot seized the theatrical imagination. By reducing what occurs on the stage to essentials, Beckett expanded the horizon of the possible. Oh--and he made it funny. A fancier of the music hall and silent-film comedians, Beckett turned his stranded souls into entertainers. They dance, do calisthenics, trade philosophies and insults, do a giddy hat-switching routine. They could be Neil Simon's Sunshine Boys: wizened vaudevillians replaying the same old effective shtick for 50 years. They know the absurdity of their plight, yet like every Beckett character...
...Palestinians," says TIME's Johanna McGeary. "Netanyahu is trying to do the minimum he can to keep to the letter of the accords while serving his security conscious constituents and the noisy little community of Jewish settlers in Hebron. The PLO knows that no new accords are on the horizon, and are determined to make Netanyahu stick to the agreements. The redeployment would simply serve to end the visible presence of the Israeli army, making the Palestinians feel sovereign in their own city. Not getting that is a big deal to the PLO." Terence Nelan