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Under Glass Correspondent: Pardon me, but would you, per chance, happen to be aware of the underlying logic that dictates Harvard's assorted libraries' borrowing and lending policies...
Even at home, Gene has seldom been far from the major events of the day. From the pardon of Richard Nixon to the raid on Entebbe to the crackdown on demonstrators in Tiananmen Square, editors have summoned Gene to the office at all hours on weekends to help remake the magazine. "He's been around so long and in so many different incarnations that Gene always knew how to get things done," says Karsten Prager, the managing editor of TIME International. "He's like a rock." We're glad our former copyboy decided to stay and stay...
...national treasure (who then had trouble finding anything to write about). White places the beginning of this dry spell in 1949. That was the year the French president, in response to a letter written by Sartre and Cocteau and signed by a slew of intellectuals, issued Genet a pardon for a possible life sentence. The pardon represented an official endorsement by the French government, its reigning man of letters and its most famous philosopher; it was a terrible blow to Genet the outsider, one that kept him from writing seriously for another fifteen years. "Canonized, pardoned, consecrated, assimilated, Genet...
...Administration is clearly reeling. The impressive litany of proposals Clinton recited last week (including new education, environmental, ethics and welfare policies) are all works in progress. The few concrete results to date are minor, and the public knows the difference. With the exception of Gerald Ford (whose pardon of Richard Nixon rocked the nation), Clinton has a disapproval rating higher than that of any other President at a comparable point. New polls show voters prefer lower taxes and fewer services over higher taxes for more services, a rebuke to the essence of Clinton's program. Perhaps most distressing...
...fated coup finally began in Moscow last week. The group's defense will be that its bid for power was not an act of treason but rather a patriotic effort to prevent the breakup of the U.S.S.R. While many Russians appear ready to believe them -- or at least pardon them -- the defendants could be sentenced to death if found guilty. In Russia that means a bullet to the back of the head -- an unfunny finale to one of history's most riveting farces...