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Unfortunately, Art is an overrated trifle: one of those small, schematic finger exercises that seem to win critical praise in direct proportion to their lack of ambition. The characters are all too easy to parse: Serge is a modernist but really a dilettante; Marc, a classicist who's a snob...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Three-Finger Exercise | 3/16/1998 | See Source »

Certainly I agree with you that we must preserve a sense of proportion and not panic over the spread of AIDS. After all, American aid has caused far more deaths in Viet Nam, Cambodia, Guatemala, Chile, El Salvador and Nicaragua, and no remedy has yet been found for this disease...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sounding Off, Talking Back | 3/9/1998 | See Source »

While Harvard ranks eighth nationally as a baccalaureate source of male Ph.D. scientists and engineers, it is only 17th for women, according to National Science Foundation data. The absolute ranking is not important because it is dependent largely on total enrollments. But the gender differences do matter. Yale, Stanford, Brown...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Comparatively Weak On Women in Sciences | 3/3/1998 | See Source »

And yet he is a popular mayor. What might be considered the Frank Perdue school of urban analysis holds that Giuliani is popular precisely because New Yorkers, now more optimistic about the possibility that the city might be manageable after all, see him as the sort of person it takes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rudy Giuliani, Proctor of New York | 3/2/1998 | See Source »

Despite the clear ability of churches to overcome physical restrictions and have more than just spiritual influence in the community, it is wrong to over-look the significance of space and relative height in the debate over the construction and shape of the proposed Knafel Center. Across the street from...

Author: By Susannah B. Tobin, | Title: Reaching Out | 2/26/1998 | See Source »

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