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What has the Met got for this money? In round figures, 60,000 sq. ft. of new exhibition space, bigger than either the Guggenheim (38,000 sq. ft.) or the Whitney (23,000 sq. ft.). It will be a long time before the Met's contemporary wing starts bursting at the seams like its older cousins. Its | architects, Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo & Associates, are masters of institutional tone, with a steely disdain for the outre and the overdeclarative; nothing they design ever gets in the way of a work of art, as one can see in their handling of such...
Some 80 lawmakers and trade experts gathered before TV cameras last week at a special conference called by House Speaker Jim Wright. Top Republicans stayed away, fearful that the conference would turn into a round of Reagan bashing. Actually, though, most speakers sounded less partisan than perplexed. They stressed the tangled roots of the trade deficit, including the movements of currency markets, Third World debt, varying wage policies in other trading nations, even American business strategies and attitudes toward work: all matters beyond the ready reach...
George, 28, is a stocky, round-faced former high school basketball star who once made a living as a construction worker. But after he lost his job just over a year ago, his wife kicked him out of the house. For a few weeks he lived on the couches of friends, but the friendships soon wore thin. Since then he has been on the street, starting from scratch and looking for a job. "I got to get my life back," George says after rinsing his face for the fourth time. He begins brushing his teeth with his forefinger...
Saturday's mass abduction began to unfold when three men wearing olive- drab uniforms and the trademark red berets of the Lebanese special police entered the college campus at about 7 p.m. in what appeared to be a police patrol jeep. They had campus security guards round up a dozen of the school's teaching staff, saying they wanted to discuss new security arrangements. When the group had assembled, police said later, the terrorists picked out the four professors, "drew their guns and took them all away...
...going to be a tough stretch," Harvard Assistant Coach Ronn Tomassoni said. "We hope to improve on our first-round Beanpot performances of the last few years, but on the same hand we have quite a few league games coming up. Teams will be gunning...