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Turning in a thesis is a jubilant, even exhilarating, experience. As the culmination of one's academic career at Harvard, it is an occasion for celebrating and whooping and backslapping and congratulations.
If there was ever a time when the French looked for a display of leadership, it was last week as President Francois Mitterrand addressed the country to explain the painful consequences of the French franc's third devaluation in 22 months of Socialist government. Speaking on nationwide television, Mitterrand...
In the absence of his fastball, he has been moving the ball around at varying speeds. His shining eyes make it silly to ask if pitching is still fun for him, but he answers anyway. "It's more complicated than fun," he says, "more sophisticated than that. But fun...
The leaders of ruling Communist parties did little more than pay lip service to Marx. Speaking under an enormous portrait of the man, Chinese Party Secretary Hu Yaobang praised Marx as "the most outstanding revolutionary and scientist in human history," then devoted the rest of his 90-minute address to...
In the Pythonized seven ages of man, birth is an occasion either to satirize the technological and administrative absurdities of modern medicine or to assault the Roman Catholics (in a musical number complete with dancing nuns and singing bishops) on the matter of unfettered procreation; death is an inconvenient guest...