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...time, however, Yugoslavia as such has been banned from Barcelona. Petrovic, a New Jersey Net, will play for Croatia. Divac, a Los Angeles Laker and a Serb, will not be allowed to play. The Germans will be competitive; N.B.A. star Detlef Schrempf will make them so. And in Oscar Schmidt, the Brazilians have one of the game's best three-point shooters. But even if you put all these players on one squad, it would make no difference. The remaining 11 teams in the Olympic tournament will be scuffling for silver...
Adapted by Paul Schmidt from Vladimir Mayakovsky's "Banya...
...Schmidt originally likened his swap of tenured life for Whittle's risky project to "leaping into the abyss." But after bringing Yale to the precipice with a projected $15 million deficit, a scary vantage point should seem familiar. (See related stories beginning on page...
...disconnected from the education process," says Whittle. "We need to figure out how they are motivated and tap into that." At this point Whittle's enterprise is little more than an ambitious blue-sky notion, yet it is attracting considerable interest and some high-level talent: Yale President Benno Schmidt last week resigned his post to head the venture...
...Schmidt brings a great deal of credibility to the project. Nonetheless, some educators wonder if access to schooling, long considered one of the most vital public missions of a democratic society, should be entrusted to people also concerned with the bottom line. Critics of the venture argue that it diverts energy and attention from efforts to reform the public education system from within. Every other major democracy educates its children in public schools, they say, so why should the U.S. rely on entrepreneurs? Schmidt's reply: "We need the freedom to try to create new conceptions on a completely clean...