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Bach Society. The phenomenal cellist Yo-Yo Ma is soloist with the Bach Society Orchestra this Saturday. Promises to be another Bach Soc packed performance at Sanders. Get the tickets early...
Juvenile crime in December was up 37% over the year before, partly because of the economic squeeze. Israel lately has been plagued by a series of strikes and strike threats. Last week the Tel Aviv daily Ma'ariv discovered that the number of Israelis applying to emigrate to Canada in January had doubled over the year before...
...which has $67 billion in assets, is the biggest of all corporate elephants; by comparison, MCI, whose principal asset is a $64 million line of bank credit, is scarcely even a gnat. Yet MCI last week bested Ma Bell in a court test that, in the eyes of A T & T officials, makes it a serious competitor. AT&T Chairman John D. deButts is, in his own words, "marching up and down the land" complaining to business audiences about the unfairness...
...State does not discuss its policies." To those with modest power, his disciple Tzu-yu added, "In the service of one's prince, repeated scolding can lead only to loss of favor." And in Imperial China, favor was with-drawn with a vengeance--China's greatest historian, Ssu-ma Ch'ien, was castrated for defending a general who had fallen into the disfavor of a Han emperor. Ssu's action had been morally correct, but he had violated another, more important Confucian precept--"First and foremost," The Master had said, "be faithful to your superiors." Confucians stood by parents, princes...
...lifts The Fighters out of the special-interest category is the first hour of documentary on the preparations for the match. The fighters, the promoters, the managers, the hangers-on, all speak a kind of spiked Odets chatter that makes the movie look and sound like a cinéma vérité replay of Body and Soul. Greaves has a quick eye and an obvious affection for the more flamboyant personalities behind the sport. A reporter at a swanky press reception rather tentatively badgers Promoter Jack Kent Cooke about the high cost of fight tickets. "Well...