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...parallel to the Core Curriculum is in the distribution requirements," Arthur J. Dyck, Saltonstall Professor of Population Ethics, said yesterday. "The Div School has always been skittish about requirements--we've gotten around them thorugh integrated exams," he added...
...relatively poor quality of surveying instruments used in 1774 and the common practice of basing astronomical observations on the moons of Jupiter rather than the star Polaris, it is amazing that the boundary between Derby Line, Vt., and Rock Island, Que., is as close to the "true" 45th parallel of latitude as is the case...
...many young people, the day usually starts with a leisurely coffee at the Dong Hai (Eastern Sea) restaurant close to the Bund, Shanghai's main waterfront road. Others start with exercises on parallel bars in the People's Park. By midday boredom sets in. The unemployed pace the banks of the Huangpu (Whangpoo) River or just wander about aimlessly. There is a lot of window-shopping: by men at the new Jinxing television store on Nanjing Avenue, by women at the First Department Store's display of pleated skirts. In neither location are the displayed goods...
Strider and the prince plummet to their fates in parallel lines. The animal prince in Strider is flogged into the ground in a vain chase after Serpuhofsky's faithless mistress (Burrell transformed into a heart wrecker of a woman). Strider ends in the knacker's yard awaiting the knife. Serpuhofsky, too tipsy to stand up, a prince turned slave, a man who once commanded 2 million rubles, ends up trying to cadge a thousand from an arriviste. In a moment of extreme poignance, the prince spies Strider. He remembers him and yet refuses to recognize him. Time...
...began his presentation last week before the Senate committees analyzing the SALT II accord. By the time the former Secretary of State had completed 7 ½ hours of testimony, he had moved beyond Kant in arguing forcefully that today the U.S. must seek peace by pursuing two parallel paths: one attempting to find areas of cooperation with the Soviet Union and the other ensuring that the nation's military arsenal is strong enough to preserve the balance of power. Kissinger's appearance helped transform the proceedings into one of the most probing analyses in years of the nation...