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This thriller carries heavy baggage: encomiums from Nobel Laureates Saul Bellow and Czeslaw Milosz. But Richard Lourie is equal to the burden. First Loyalty has a compelling cast and a labyrinthine plot that twists from Siberia to the Bronx. Perhaps the most odious individual is the exiled dissident poet Evgeny Shar. To him crime is just "politics without the excuses." His nemesis, Writer David Aronow, scrapes by translating "the endless memoirs of people from countries where nothing ever worked out well." KGB Colonel Anton Vinias, responsible for instigating Western soccer riots, believes reality is simply "documentary footage, crying...
...Overseer Saul G. Cohen '37, a chemistry professor at Brandeis University in Waltham who sits on the Advisory Committee, says he "puts in a great deal of time" and has no qualms about helping select the degree recipients. The Overseers and the Corporation have final say over the choices, according to Cohen and Anne M. Morgan, another member of the Board...
Dozens of local reporters and national television media scrambled to make 11 p.m. news broadcasts with stories of torture, rape and death squads from "Estella Ramirez," "Saul" and "Sonia"-pseudonyms for real life survivors of war-torn Central America...
...Oscar-night triumph will probably transform Amadeus from a moderately successful film into a big hit. "We now have a chance to make $60 million or better in domestic box office," says Producer Saul Zaentz. "And we have a chance to reach an audience that is afraid of classical music, afraid of Mozart." Orion Pictures has deliberately distributed the film to only a limited number of theaters, hoping to create the feeling that it was special, an "event," in the word of Orion's president of distribution, Robert Cheren...
...public schools, today's reformers seek a return to what they think schools were in the Good Old Days places where dedicated and respected teachers rigorously taught the traditional disciplines to eager and obedient pupils From California Supt of Public Instruction Bill Hong to New Jersey Commissioner of Education Saul Cooperman, conservatives are leading the way back to what, in an interesting crymological paradox, is called liberal education...