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Last spring those same Brattle St. benefactors prevented a nearby garden store from closing this precious little space of parkland. They realized what I've known for a long time: Riverbend Park is as valuable as liquid capital...
...students who suffer most from that myth are the premeds. Contrary to the spirit of a liberal arts education, premedical students, striving for one of the precious spots in a medical school, devote more than one-third of their college educations to preparing for medicine. The rigorous requirements, as Assistant Professor of the History of Medicine and Science Allan Brandt puts it, "have polluted undergraduate education...
...students who suffer most from that myth are the premeds. Contrary to the spirit of a liberal arts education, premedical students, striving for one of the precious spots in a medical school, devote more than one-third of their college educations to preparing for medicine. The rigorous requirements, as Assistant Professor of the History of Medicine and Science Allan Brandt puts it, "have polluted undergraduate education...
Indeed, the Botha government is receiving precious little encouragement from any quarter. Though Ronald Reagan had recently described it as a "reformist" regime, Washington issued several critical statements last week concerning Pretoria's actions. For the first time, the U.S. explicitly urged South Africa to permit the A.N.C. to take part in any discussions between the government and black leaders on the country's future. In one of the strongest comments yet made on the current situation by a Reagan Administration official, State Department Spokesman Charles Redman declared: "Banning individuals and organizations from political activity is one of the most...
...first artists to perceive that a culture writes some chapters of its memoirs in waste. But unlike other German avant-gardists of the '20s and '30s, he was not a political artist with party allegiances; he was utterly absorbed in the ideal of autonomous fine art. "Art is too precious to be misused as a tool," he declared. "I prefer to distance myself from contemporary events . . . But I am more deeply rooted in my time than the politicians." After half a century, Schwitters' constructions, which include every kind of urban detritus--the crumpled sides of a child's tin train...