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Next fall may well mark the long awaited rebirth of Afro-American studies at Harvard. The department will likely bring in five new professors--including Henry Louis Gates Jr., One of the nation's premier scholars in the field...
...Martins, 44, the production is a triumph, establishing him as the premier figure in American classical dance. He was already a power to reckon with as head of what is often described as the world's finest classical company. Running a ballet troupe is a tricky business. In addition to day-to- day operations, fund raising and the ceaseless development of talent, a director must have artistic impact on the world of the arts, or the troupe's name will lose its luster. Martins' Beauty cuts like a stiff breeze through increasingly remote traditions. No major company has managed such...
Whatever their opinions about the new construction, critics agree that the University has at least been paying proper attention to the projects. They point to the fact that Harvard has been working on them for several years with some of the Northeast's premier architectural firms...
...ticket, the polling for the legislature of his home state was seen throughout the country as a referendum on his handling of the merger of the two Germanys. | His Christian Democratic party (CDU) was beaten, 38.7% to 44.8%, by the Social Democrats. Kohl, the state's premier from 1969 to 1976, admitted that the defeat was "personally painful...
Carter's message, which he repeated to Premier Li Peng and Communist General Secretary Jiang Zemin, produced no visible results, though the former President did receive assurances that Chinese students in the U.S. who obtain a permit to return home will not be harassed or arrested once back in China. Chinese analysts believe the regime may have let Carter speak to help persuade Washington to continue most-favored-nation trade relations...