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...that led to August Wilson's being awarded a second Pulitzer Prize for drama last week, members of the Pulitzer board likened him to the playwright generally regarded as America's greatest: Eugene O'Neill. If that comparison seems overly generous -- Wilson has not yet produced a masterpiece to rank with Long Day's Journey into Night, nor does his body of work yet rival the four-decade outpouring that won O'Neill the Pulitzer four times and the Nobel Prize to boot -- the praise may merely be premature. In just over five years, since his first professionally produced play...
Currently ranked seventh in the nation, Harvard could still make a post-season NCAA bid without a win against West Virginia, since the eight regional winners as well as the 12 top teams in the nation all qualify. If, however, the Crimson slips in its national rank, it will have to beat West Virginia to obtain the regional title...
Mandela's reduction in rank from antiapartheid god to mortal man was predictable. "When he was still in jail, there was nothing that he could do wrong," says Willie Breytenbach, head of African studies at the University of Stellenbosch. "It is almost as if there has been a decultification of Mandela." Veteran liberal Helen Suzman says Mandela has been hurt by his inability to stop black-on-black violence. "People who were unreservedly delighted at his release have become a little uneasy," she says...
...legions of fans who just can't seem to get enough of the shellbacks and their escapades. Their syndicated cartoon series, which debuted two years ago, appears daily on 130 TV stations and is the No. 3 animated show for children. Meanwhile, three videotapes based on the show rank among the Top Ten videos for children. Kids are, literally, so eager to get their hands on the Turtles that Playmates Toys Inc.'s action figures of the heroes were the third biggest-selling toy last Christmas (after Barbie and Nintendo). All told, some 300 Turtle merchandising spin-offs ranging from...
History is filled with ironies large and small, but Modrow's present circumstances deserve more than a footnote in Eastern Europe's chronicle of change. In another age (say a year ago), Modrow would have been hailed as a Communist reformer of the first rank. As party leader in Dresden from 1973 to 1989, Modrow was no favorite of Erich Honecker's and his now discredited Politburo. Last June economist Gunter Hager sent a commission of 100 party hacks to snoop into the Dresden operation in hopes of finding a reason to drive Modrow out of the Central Committee. What...