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Answer: a great cultural ritual was being enacted. The occasion, two weeks ago, was the graduation program of the Moscow Academic Choreographic School, training arm of the 204-year-old Bolshoi. The young dancers were making their traditional debuts on the stage where they hope one day to reign as soloists. Bolshoi training-indeed, Soviet ballet training in general -imbues the students, from their first moments at the barre, with a deep sense of style and history. Says the Bolshoi Ballet's administrative director, Pyotr Khomutov: "When our classical heritage is made a part of the educational program...
...International Court of Justice at The Hague that Iran was violating international law and "must immediately terminate the unlawful detention" was called meaningless by Tehran. Syrian Diplomat Adib Daoudy, a member of the short-lived U.N. commission that had been formed to investigate the former Shah's reign, traveled to Tehran to lobby for a revival of that initiative on behalf of U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim...
...Brattle St. crowd" fought back--their strategy to regain some power (and also to end the corruption that marked the reign of the Irish) was a scheme innocuously called "Plan E elections." Plan E supporters called for lessening the power of the mayor and putting the city under the administration of a professional "city manager," responsible to the city council. The plan also called for a new system of voting designed to insure that minorities within the city would have a voice. "We knew it was a plan by Harvard and the lace curtain ethnics to get control," Vellucci says...
...also essential for Western officials to remain in Tehran to support Iranian moderates like Banisadr. The Italians feel that their diplomats in Iran are particularly useful because they supposedly have clout with Iranian radicals. Italy's President Alessandro Pertini supported persecuted Iranian students during the Shah's reign...
...University must give individuals free reign to express their opinions, it must not--except in very rare cases--take institutional moral positions. To do so, Bok warns, is to force the University (1) to open itself up to outside unwanted pressures; (2) to try and develop standards of moral behavior which are virtually impossible to develop and threaten to become obsolete orthodoxies; and (3) to put the University's academic reputation on the line. Though Bok seriously doubts the University's ability to reform society in any way outside of academic discoveries--"rarely will the institutional acts of a single...