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...Harvard Yard is becoming, by separate and unrelated acts, a sampler of different paving materials," said Cambridge resident Robert Campbell, who was at the meeting to protest the design...
...This week public television will air Bye Bye Kipling, a 90-minute avant-garde variety special, broadcast live from three countries. Intended as a high- resolution refutation of Kipling's "East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet," the show will feature a sampler of art, music and sports. Painter Keith Haring, Musicians Philip Glass and Lou Reed and a member of Paik's "family" of video robots will appear in Manhattan, Architect Arata Isozaki and Fashion Designer Issey Miyake will be on from Tokyo, and outside Seoul, cameras will follow the running...
Most of the season's action, nevertheless, takes place around cozy couches, homey banisters and bustling kitchen tables. A sampler...
...fulfill a promise I made to my mother." And at Georgetown University in Washington, Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor reminded law school graduates that there are other promises--like public service--to keep, despite the temptations of paychecks for "more than you are worth." A commencement sampler...
...survey of university and college presidents as one of the nation's better schools. Evergreen is one of a set of ambitious schools that in the past half a dozen years have emerged from academe's boondocks or thereabouts to reach for national recognition. All the institutions in the sampler below, along with a growing corps of like-minded schools, have risen under the hands of dynamic presidents. Each offers a special learning opportunity, some at bargain rates, to high school seniors hoping in this climactic month of the admissions season to get accepted by a decent college they...