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...With polish, grace and skill, the Harvard-Radcliffe Callbacks showed a packed Sanders Theater crowd how to have a good time on a Saturday night without musical instruments. In typical fashion, the group performed a wide variety of songs, traditional and modern, and performed them consistently well. Although the crowd seemed a touch restless during the opening acts, the Callbacks put on a jam that would satisfy even the strongest desire for an a capella...
...most recent spate of attacks appears to have been prompted by a skinhead victory over the authorities: two weeks ago in the Saxon town of Hoyerswerda, 25 miles from the Polish border, the state government relocated 230 foreigners whose building had been subjected to a six-day barrage of stones and Molotov cocktails. The possibility of similar victories elsewhere has emboldened neo- Nazis and skinheads throughout Germany...
...plan are those who were excluded from its development. The Window of Opportunity team consisted of some Soviet scholars, but mostly well-known experts from other fields, including Stone Professor of International Trade Jeffrey Sachs '76, the Harvard economist who has been a principal adviser to the post-Communist Polish government...
...more tolerant of past party ties. In 1989 Czechoslovak President Vaclav Havel appointed Josef Tosovsky, an apparatchik whose star rose under communist rule, to be president of his country's state bank. Other ex-functionaries have found comfortable posts outside the power structure. Jerzy Urban, who ran Polish state television during the last days of the communist regime, now edits a satirical magazine that mocks postcommunist politicians...
...escaped the Holocaust. He described vanished worlds in a dying language to a dwindling audience and was awarded the 1978 Nobel Prize for Literature. He was unknown at 40, but last week, when I.B. Singer died of a stroke at the age of 87, he was the most applauded Polish-born writer since Joseph Conrad...