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COVER: Bright Asian- American students are the marvel of U. S. classrooms...
...moment, the U.S. and Pakistan are discussing which craft Islamabad should buy. Pakistan wants to buy three Boeing E-3A Sentries. The jet, which the U.S. deploys on the NATO front and in other key strategic areas, is a top- of-the-line technical marvel whose exact capabilities are classified. But Washington says it has no Sentries to spare, and has offered instead the much less sophisticated Grumman E-2C Hawkeye. Capable of tracking more than 600 targets at a range of 300 miles, the propeller-driven Hawkeye is slower and more vulnerable to attack than the Sentry...
...fellow aristocrats leave the messy business of living to their servants; these days, we would just as soon leave it to our monarchs. We demand of them, moreover, a double role: they must be godlike mortals, fallible gods. Upon peering into their closets, we wish not only to marvel at the gowns but also to revel in the skeletons that hang there...
Ethically, fundraising operations are based on the fine distinction between wheedling and theft. As far as wages go, they never tell you what you will earn; quoted figures are absolute maximums. Remember the ads in the back of Marvel Comix that said, "Earn up to $100 per week in your spare time by whistling in the bathtub"? Same deal. Unless you have an infinite number of relatives to pitch to, forget...
Last week a painting was sold at auction in London for $39.9 million or, in real money, some 5.8 billion yen. This was the highest price ever paid for a work of art. The multimillion-dollar marvel is now a commonplace of the '80s: a Turner went for $10 million in 1984, a Mantegna for $10.4 million and a Van Gogh for $9.9 million in 1985, and a Rembrandt for $10.3 million and a Manet for $11 million in 1986. Nevertheless, this one brought in more than three times the previous record established in 1983 with the sale...