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Moscow Bureau Chief Bruce Nelan is accustomed to covering diplomatic affairs, but in recent weeks he played diplomat as well as painstakingly negotiating the final details of a meeting with Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev. Nelan was successful, and last Tuesday he and a team of TIME journalists joined Brezhnev in his Kremlin office to conduct the extraordinary discussion that is part of this week's cover story. Never before had the party chief held a private interview with members of an American news organization...
...Nerve-racking enough, but the goods they are buying and selling are extremely volatile, their value subject to human whims, storms in the farm belt, or a boost in interest rates in Washington. Most of the trading takes place in traditional commodities, such as wheat and corn, but in recent years the Board of Trade has added futures in U.S. Treasury bonds and the enticing "Ginnie Maes" (as the Government's National Mortgage Association certificates are blithely called). The Board of Trade is the nation's largest commodities exchange, a market that has become to the late...
...recent survey of approximately 4000 faculty members at four-year colleges and universities ranked faculty members of seven Harvard departments as "best" in the nation...
...alumnus of and coach and employee for Harvard University. I have seen, endured, and of course, missed a great deal in this period. And rather than selfishly keep all to myself, I am sharing some of the meaningful moments with you in a sort of athletic history of the recent past. As a Harvard graduate who majored in history, this is the first and most likely the last time I'll ever do anything related to history in my life. Let me begin...
Iraq and Syria have taken steps in recent months to end their long political feud and lead the Arab opposition to the Camp David peace accords. Both hardline states oppose Egypt's peace moves and have vowed to build up their military challenge to Israel to compensate for Egypt's withdrawal from the conflict...