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...State University, he says, "I hadn't reached the state within myself to be involved in anything political. I had my music. The disruption of everything this spring forced me into a commitment." It is a strong commitment. Recently he and four other students walked onto a building site in lower Manhattan where they spent more than four hours discussing their differences with the construction men. "I saw one guy in the group just plastered with American flags," Fifer said. "I introduced myself, and he warmed up. We talked, and when I left he told me that what...
Located on the site of a former resort hotel in northern New Hampshire, Franconia is spiritually somewhere between Alice's Restaurant and Alice in Wonderland. The place abounds with tutorials and individual projects. Freed from formal departments and competition for tenure (there is none), teachers shape their courses to their own interests and those of their students. Results have been mixed. Courses range from imaginative interdisciplinary projects to haphazard bull sessions. Some students, who seemed unable to learn anything at conventional colleges, have blossomed at Franconia. Others have found license as unsatisfying as control...
...charges .that a disgruntled poet had brought against him: corrupting the youth of ancient Athens, impiety and practicing "religious novelties." The ensuing trial is still remembered as an epic defense of free speech and individual liberty, largely because of Plato's detailed account of it. But the trial site itself has long eluded archaeologists. Now, after nearly a century of digging in the heart of Athens, the search may finally be over...
...American archaeologist disclosed that he had stumbled on the locale of Socrates' trial in new excavations just north of the ancient Athenian marketplace and civic center. Professor T. Leslie Shear Jr. of Princeton University and the American School of Classical Studies in Athens identified the area as the site of the Stoa (or portico) of the Basileus. As the No. 2 man in the nine-man elected Athenian hierarchy, the basileus often acted as the city's chief magistrate. It was in this capacity that he presided over the Athenian judges who ordered Socrates to take...
...stars and planets. Pictures of Jupiter already shot through one of its smaller telescopes are considered among the best ever obtained. Less than 20 degrees north of the equator, the observatory can explore far more of the southern skies than most installations in the Northern Hemisphere. The site is also favored by an unusual local weather condition: a layer of warm air that on seven days out of ten traps obscuring clouds, pollution and precipitation several thousand feet below the summit...