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...conference had its share of lighter moments. In a program of informal exchanges, Maria Valsilyeva of Riga wanted to know about differences in men's and women's salaries in the U.S. Marilyn Levinson of Erie, Pa., wanted the recipe for shchi, a Russian cabbage soup. Later Anderson took his wife to a restaurant and they ended up dancing with a group of Ukrainian tourists from, of all places, Chernobyl. Said Anderson: "I'm sure those people will go home and tell their friends that we're not all that...
...University made arrangements with a total of 17 hotels, including the Ritz-Carlton, Charles Hotel and Four Seasons Hotel, to provide all alumni with cut-rate group hotel rates. Approximately 1000 non-representatives, in addition to about 1000 representatives, took advantage of University hotel arrangements, said Bernice Levinson, Harvard's hotel and hospitality coordinator. Thousands of other alumni made their own hotel arrangements, she said...
...A.M.A. decision was hailed by many advocacy groups last week as an important step in preserving the right to die with dignity. After "a period when technology was used indiscriminately, this returns us to common-sense medicine," declared A.J. Levinson, executive director of Concern for Dying in New York City. But there were bitter objections as well. "Deciding to begin selective starvation is a decision no civilization should make," said Philosophy Professor Patrick Derr of Clark University in Worcester, Mass. And dehydration, critics noted, can be a gruesome way to die (though just how much a comatose patient feels...
...Levinson said the show went on as planned yesterday despite the wind and rain because it was part of a celebration commemorating the birthday of Dorothy Day, the deceased founder of the singers' parent organization, the Catholic Worker. Day, a journalist, communist, and convert to Catholicism, established the organization 50 years ago in New York City, where a leftwing newspaper still bears its name...
Asked if the singers had any other gigs lined up, Levinson said, "Maybe he [Bok] will invite us in, and we'll sing for him in his office...