Word: pathe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Rowe took a roundabout path through a turbulent Harvard during his years as an undergraduate. The period from 1969 to 1973 saw some of the most rapid change in Harvard's history...
...critics raved about Upshaw's charm and freshness; she seemed set for a predictable rise in the soubrette roles of grand opera. But Upshaw had ideas of her own. A few years earlier, one of her voice teachers, Jan DeGaetani, had told her to "seek your own path." Upshaw took that advice. From Mozart to Stravinsky to show tunes, she sings a far wider range of music than is typical for an international star, yet at 34 she has risen faster and further than any other American singer of her generation...
...area in one of only two South American regions where illegal coca leaves are grown. Peruvian air force commandos spotted the wreckage Sunday, but heavy rains and thick vegetation hampered the recovery operation for a day. A D.E.A. investigation is trying to discover whether armed drug traffickers or Shining Path guerrillas who infest the area played any role in the crash...
...diplomatic ties with Vietnam, whose human-rights record is no better than Cuba's. It is holding extensive talks with North Korea, the worst troglodyte of all Stalinist regimes. And when Bill Clinton extended most-favored-nation tariff treatment to Beijing last May, he argued that "the best path for advancing freedom in China is for the United States to intensify and broaden its engagement with that nation." Why shouldn't he treat Cuba the same way? "I think the circumstances are different" is the best explanation he could manage last week...
...sketch of the bramble of academic politics. On his retirement, Nathan becomes preoccupied with Aubrey to the degree that his son Brax, who really is a painter, becomes bored and annoyed. It is Brax who finds Aubrey, now a dying ancient, and Brax who chooses finally to follow his path and live far away, independent of his family...