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...Moving to Germany was a big shock because I found out they wouldn't let me take the position without a Ph.D. My wife and two children had to eat, so I finished my dissertation in a year, which has to be one of the fastest times ever," he says...
...time, he fared little better with Bulgaria's economic problems than the Socialists have since." More encouraging, says Calabresi, is the "actively pro-market" reform package that Kostov presented in vain to the Socialists in January." Some skepticism remains, though, how devoted he is to the kind of drastic 'shock treatment' reforms that have worked in Central Europe, and that need to be adopted here." On Tuesday, the 100,000 people gathered in central Cathedral Square were not to be reminded of their troubles. "It's wonderful!" rejoiced Gergana Doychinova, one of thousands of students who danced around bonfires...
...junk-bond schemes, all his convictions have been thrown out. Last April, a federal court found that O.J.-judge Lance Ito, who presided at Keating's 1991 California state trial, had bungled the job by issuing faulty instructions to the jury. Then, just last December, came an even bigger shock: a federal judge ruled that Keating's 1993 federal conviction was tainted. And in a separate rebuke, a three-judge federal appeals panel declared that the evidence of his guilt is "not overwhelming." That means Keating is no longer a criminal in the eyes...
Yesterday's aggro and shock, today's museum relic. "Making Mischief: Dada Invades New York," curated by Francis Naumann and Beth Venn and now running at New York City's Whitney Museum of American Art, is an interesting show of what is, ultimately, a spiky but fairly thin subject. Dadaism--its name made of baby-talk syllables, its intent to disorient bourgeois expectations of culture by any means possible--was a short-lived but fecund movement born and raised in Europe in the century's teens. It was more like a tiny religion than an art event, with a proselytizing...
...then confronted with tough problems that eventually dissolved in peals of laughter. Last week the images of Ennis Cosby dead in L.A. melded myth and reality. The only son of America's premier family had been shot, and the father of a generation of TV viewers was in shock and mourning. The sitcom is over. The laughter has ended. Welcome to the real world...