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Just as Harvard students arrived in Cambridge early last week, campuses around the country were buzzing with the results of U.S. News and World Report's ranking of the nation's best colleges. The annual survey shook up the traditional hierarchy among the Big Three, ending Harvard's six-year streak as the top college in the nation. Adding insult to injury, the U.S. News survey dropped Harvard right past second to a lowly third, behind Yale and Princeton, respectively. Harvardians responded with a mix of consternation and indifference to the news that their alma matter had fallen from...
JERUSALEM: But does he talk the talk? Israeli Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu today shook hands with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, a man he used to deride as a terrorist and murderer. In their first meeting, the two men discussed the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, amid rumors that the United States demanded the meeting as a prerequisite for Netanyahu's trip to the United States next week. Although the two leaders settled none of the issues troubling the peace process, they did make unspecific, encouraging statements to the press. While Netanyahu praised the goal of assuring the "security and well being...
...dull, sanitized-for-tv convention until that electric moment on Thursday night. Few knew that Bob Dole had injured his ankle getting out of the motorcade earlier. But he shook off the pain, courageously mounted the podium for his acceptance vault, completed the difficult 1 1/2 twist and stuck the landing. As he crumpled to the floor in pain, chants of "U.S.A.! U.S.A.!" filled the arena...
...When John Kennedy promised that by the end of the 1960s we would put a man on the moon," he says, "everybody, including the scientists, shook their heads in dismay. But we did it. We can cure spinal-cord injuries too, if there's the will. What was possible in outer space is possible in inner space...
...Kaplan at Salzburg did not bring to mind a slick stick like Riccardo Muti or Valery Gergiev, his intense, attentive manner in front of the Philharmonia, the Vienna State Opera Chorus, mezzo-soprano Doris Soffel and soprano Rosa Mannion bespoke a firm grasp. Mahler's heaven-storming climaxes shook the Grossesfestspielhaus to its granite foundations, and anyone who did not feel a chill at the tremendous peroration must either have been dead or Austrian...