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...much luck and work?see its sovereignty restored. For its part, the U.S. has watched two allies come out on top in two displays of elegantly executed strategies. Better yet: the Soviets have been stung in Lebanon, the surface-to-air missiles they sold to the Syrians lying like scrap sculptures in the Bekaa Valley. If there is little dancing in the streets, you would think there might at least be deep contentment in the mind. There...
Word of the discovery came last week from British-born Anthropologist J. Desmond Clark of the University of California at Berkeley. Says he: "I think we've got something both significant and extremely exciting." Although paleontologists often scrap as furiously over their bones as saber-toothed tigers, they do not disagree with Clark's assessment. "It's of tremendous potential," says Berkeley's F. Clark Howell, who has spent years fossil hunting in East Africa. Agrees Duke's Richard Kay: "A blockbuster...
Michelle Harrison had been a family physician for eight years when she decided to scrap her New Jersey practice and retrain as an obstetrician-gynecologist. The 35-year-old doctor was drawn to the field by the rewards she had experienced attending "home births," by the pleasures of her own pregnancy and motherhood and by her ardent commitment to feminism and women's health. Harrison, who is divorced, searched for a part-time residency that would permit her to care for her five-year-old daughter Heather. She landed such a position at Boston's renowned Beth Israel...
...caper may have been more humorous than tragic, but it does serve as an emblem of the University's willingness this year to scrap past promises or reconsider time-honored policies that reflected the best of Harvard. On two of this year's signal issues--the temporary decisions to end the University's absolute ban on investment in banks that loan to South Africa, and to cancel the Fogg Museum's proposed new wing. Harvard precipitously discarded earlier promises...
What Guido does not have is a scrap of script or the ghost of an idea. He retreats to a Venetian spa to summon up the Muse but instead scares up the Furies-all the women in his life. Dressed all in black, the women seat themselves on detached all-white 2½-ft.-high cubes that symmetrically dot the stage. Raising a baton, Guido affects to conduct a discordant Greek chorus of lamentation...