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Harvard is hardly the lone outpost in higher education that recognizes the value of a year off. According to Breimer, the “time out” Harvard recommends has rapidly gained popularity among colleges and guidance counselors alike...
...standards of most 24-story buildings, the new Austrian Cultural Forum, which opens this week in New York City, occupies a space the size of a pipe cleaner. In a plot just 25 ft. across, the width of the town house it replaces, Austria's state-sponsored cultural outpost holds a library, galleries, offices and a mini-theater, plus an apartment for the Forum's director. But its real miracle is to squeeze more visual cunning and brainy pleasure into a small space than you can find in whole blocks of dreary office cartons--that is to say, most...
...Year, one question faces her subjects: What do you give a monarch who has (or has had) almost everything, including entire swaths of Africa? For Gibraltar, the best gift for a Queen whose dominion has shrunk in each decade of her reign would probably be loyalty. And in this outpost of the Empire, support for the Crown is still solid. As a rock...
...gunmen cut their way through a fence and attack an Israeli outpost outside the Gaza Strip, killing four soldiers. Hamas claims responsibility...
...dawn, Raviv brushes the outpost's floor to remove cigarette butts, spent machine-gun cartridges and the dirt that has blown in through the rifle slits. Not far away, Najjar will be raking out his tent after another night. In Rafah they sweep up the intifadeh's filth and wait for more grime to fall on them...