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...county's schools, but also called for the closing of nine of the previously black schools, either because their facilities were inadequate or because they were in crime-ridden neighborhoods. Blacks were particularly rankled by the shutting down of two relatively new schools, while the oldest white school in the system, built in 1898, remained open...
...feuds made all the more painful by the fact that the disputants are of the same blood. For the past 30 years one of the most spectacular such feuds has pitted Robert Mondavi, now 64, against his brother Peter, 63, over the operation of the Charles Krug Winery, the oldest in California's Napa Valley. Their struggle came to a climax this year in a court battle interrupted by their mother's death. Now it is nearing a surprising conclusion: a California judge has ordered the profitable winery-it earned $3.5 million on sales of $16 million...
Astronomy is the oldest science, yet for most terrestrials the night sky remains a confusing game of join the dots. Faced with incomprehensible distances, intimidating mathematics and names like Triangulum Australe, the temptation is to do one's stargazing on the Tonight show. But the attraction to heavenly bodies persists. In an age when science and philosophy dress in basic black, colorful beliefs about the personal influence of the stars flourish-particularly in a specialized union of pseudo scholarship and science fiction that could be called fiction science. Like astrology or its medieval cousin alchemy, fiction science tries...
After the Biennales of the '50s and '60s, such self-questioning enterprises may strike the visitor as strange. But the shift had to come. The Venice Biennale is the oldest of modern art festivals (it started in 1895), but by the mid-'60s it had degenerated into a trade fair, riddled with favoritism and lobbying. The prize system came under attack for setting artists against each other like cocks in a pit and serving only the dealers' interests. None of the slightly tacky glamour of the Biennale, with its conspiratorial gossip, could restore its lost prestige...
...foreign country. In many ways, it is-or at least it is a halfway house between the rest of the world and the U.S. In another perspective, New York is the most uniquely American of U.S. cities, precisely because of its incredible diversity. It is one of the oldest American cities-dating to 1626, when Peter Minuit bought Manhattan from the Indians and established the first permanent settlement. But it is still a city of aliens-spiritual, cultural and legal...