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Appointed as a young leader who could mend a campus torn by 1960s student activism, President Derek C. Bok has presided over two decades marked by massive financial growth, curriculum reform, and its own fair share of internal controversies...
...then there's the sprightly Gloria Estefan, 32, who boogies with a Latin lilt and a dash of salsa, temporarily out of commission with a bad back after a nasty bus crash. (She's on the mend at home in Miami, thanks, doing fine and due back on stage in three to six months.) "I don't feel Cuban or American," the Cuban-born singer reflected before her accident. "I guess I feel Latin Miami." That neatly encapsulates the music she makes too: sunny, open...
...media companies mend their ways without government interference? There is certainly a precedent for it. In the 1960s and '70s, much entertainment, from Beatles music to the movies Easy Rider and M*A*S*H, glamourized drug use. But at some point, the world's artists, producers and media executives decided that promoting drugs was not a good thing. Nowadays the message that children receive from entertainment is strong and unambiguous: drugs are dangerous, and taking them is foolish. I hope that the future messages my two boys receive about sex and violence make just as much sense...
Enough for my heart to mend...
...Soviet Union and the European Community have all pledged to help Rumania mend its wounds and have dispatched shipments of food and medicines. But even with the best of will, there is little outsiders can do beyond providing emergency aid until the transition government, or the one to follow it, manages to grasp firm control. In an attempt to achieve that and broaden its base, the Front at week's end expanded from 60 to 145 members. Among the newcomers were representatives of some ten nascent political parties and local action committees and citizen militias from around the country. Once...