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...Sept. 13 issue of The Harvard Crimson, an editorial titled "Making English Official Carries Risk" by Armen Melikian, a special student in the graduate Department of Mathematics last year, made a very passionate argument against recent legislation which would make English the official language of the United States. As the author himself argues, this legislation simply requires "conducting government business in English." However, Mr. Melikian argues that this legislation is "but one item in a hidden agenda by Anglo supremacist groups to annihilate the cultural identity of various ethnic groups that comprise American society...
...Armen Melikian was a special student in the graduate Department of Mathematics last year...
...larger problem will not go away. As the auction analyst Souren Melikian recently wrote in the International Herald Tribune, "Market manipulation has now reached such proportions . . . that even the greenest newcomers are becoming aware that they are being taken for a ride." Since the main form of this manipulation has been the systematic inflation of estimates, it leaves the auctioneers with a problem not even Dr. Gachet could cure...
Although Dukakis insists his spending proposals are appropriate, according to Ed Melikian, spokesperson for the DOE, "It's useless to talk about the numbers of the budget right now because everything is up in the air. Everything will be changed. It serves no purpose to talk about actual figures and spending before the legislature has revised the budget...
Where else, after all, can a reader get the best of both the Post and Times, expertly presented along with comics and commentary? As a bonus, there is also the Trib's own crew of offbeat freelancers who lend the paper a welcome air of leisured whimsy. Souren Melikian, a Persian prince, covers art and artifact auctions with the colorful authority of both expert and buyer. Gastronome Waverly Root writes lovingly of rare, night-blooming mushrooms and the perils of absinthe, interspersed with an occasional reminiscence of Paris whores of the 1920s. Among Trib critics, Henry Pleasants comments...