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Arabs and Jews attend separate schools in Israel, and it is unlikely that the situation will change. But even among Jews there are divisions--those who settled in Palestine before the establishment of the state in 1948, the Oriental Jews, and the Eastern European Jews, each forming a distinct socio...
If Houston's first civic distinction is as "the energy capital of the world," its second is perhaps equally enviable: a 1,466-acre park of woodland trails that is almost twice as large as New York's Central Park. Geologists have long suspected that Houston's...
Cross's Simple (Stephen Cooke) is a funny, friendly man, but he lacks the brilliant wit of the Simple of Hughes's stories. He remains the thread that unites the disparate characters of the play, but pales beside the vitality of some of the other roles. Something of Simple's...
The current musical fare, with a few exceptions, pales in comparison to Zappa's earlier work. His mid-'60s pieces ranged from impassioned social commentary, as in "Who Are the Brain Police," to fifties rhythm and blues parodies, to lengthy explorations of the subconscious ("Help, I'm a Rock"). What...
Administration-watching is a tricky business, because it relies so much on piecemeal information and guesswork and because the administration speaks its mind on important issues to alumni, not students. But the administration seems to be in a retrenching period, brought on by financial woes and slipping reputation, that has...