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...grip, the countries of Eastern Europe are breaking free unevenly. Poland and Hungary lead the way, East Germany is groping to catch up, and Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria and Rumania remain far behind. As the participants -- even Gorbachev -- improvise from one day to the next, old alliances are being strained. "Almost overnight," says Adam Bromke of the Polish Academy of Sciences, "all the rivalries and tensions in the bloc that Communist orthodoxy had papered over for decades burst into the open...
...four newcomers, however, could not turn an ugly Crimson duckling into a swan overnight. Harvard plodded to its second straight three-win season...
Coupled with this was the problem for young conductors trying to learn their repertory out of the spotlight. An overnight success could make a name, but at what cost? Michael Tilson Thomas, for example, sprang to fame in Boston by substituting for William Steinberg and then spent the next two decades dealing with the consequences of sudden celebrity. Still only 44, Thomas has matured into a fine conductor, and now leads the London Symphony Orchestra. Perhaps in recognition of the pitfalls of premature success, Soviet emigre Semyon Bychkov, 37, started out in Grand Rapids and then went to Buffalo before...
...hand on him to direct him to leave," said Hillman, who suffered a severe concussion and was hospitalized overnight. The thief fled with the cash box, which contained $500, according to the police report...
Earlier this fall, burglars broke open safes in Nini's Corner and the neighboring Greenhouse Coffee Shop, stealing $10,000 in overnight breakins. Since late September, armed robbers have struck CVS Pharmacy on Mass Ave., The Jewelry Gallery in the Galleria, Harvard Square Dry Cleaning and Laundry on Eliot St. and Serendipity, a Mass Ave. women's clothing store...