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...week, when Gamsakhurdia became the first popularly elected president of a Soviet republic. Georgia has much to fear from diehard imperialists in Moscow, but there is another, internal menace -- a growling presence in the garden. The republic is cursed by its own demography. In that sense, it is a microcosm of the U.S.S.R. More than 80 nationalities share a territory half the size of Arkansas. The new, breakaway leadership tends to behave toward its minorities the way the Kremlin -- starting with the Bolsheviks' first commissar of nationalities, the Georgian Joseph Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili, alias Stalin -- has treated the more than...
Like my dad, I try as best I can to create my own little microcosm of cleanliness. Sweep, wash, throw away--whatever it takes to keep the fiend at bay. But, after all these years of washing machines, garbage cans and recycling bins, I feel truly trapped. Am I the only one? Does anyone else see the monster at the Union, where first-years use about 9000 "Veritas" cups each day? How about in the Sunday New York Times, which comes at the cost of acres of forest land...
...upcoming book by David Riesman '31, professor of sociology emeritus and Judith Block McLaughlin, head of the educational division of Harvard's Seminar for New Presidents. The book, to be titled Choosing a College President: Opportunities and Constraints, details a selection process which they say "serves as a microcosm of institutional politics and pressures." Here is an excerpt from the Chronicle's article...
Baskteball, according to Harvard men's basketball Coach Peter Roby, "is a microcosm for life." Looking at it this way, the Crimson's 1990-91 Ivy League season was divided into two very distinct lives: the Good Life and the Bad Life...
...years this debate has been replayed endlessly, often in microcosm. Take the most recent gulf debate about America's forte, air power. In Congress one heard time and again that air power cannot win wars: Vietnam proved that. Did it, or did it prove that air power cannot win wars in dense jungle against irregular units on bicycles? In the next such debate about the adequacy of air power, the "lessons of the gulf" will be the new reference point...