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...true long-term self-interest lies in working with the U.S. to stand against the Soviet Union politically and militarily so that, eventually, detente can be put back on track. Europe can and should belabor Washington all it wants in private to bring about a better strategy and a smoother partnership, but the destruction of a joint public front is extremely dangerous. Europe and the U.S. of course blame each other for damaging that united front, and Washington must carry its share of responsibility...
...School hierarchy is also examining its second-year program. "It could be a 'new-look MBA,'" Heskett says. "There's some exciting course development and we're talking about some major restructuring." Specifically, Heskett says, the second-year program will be redesigned to allow a smoother transition from the academic to the business atmosphere...
...firm seldom ignores administrative guidance because other companies would consider that firm a pariah, and the government can easily tie up an offender's business in red tape. The whole system is made smoother because Japanese business and government chiefs understand one another: the flick of an eyebrow, the yes that is not really a yes, the small nuance of conversation that can never be written down. Comprehension comes because these leaders usually have the same roots of culture and class. Often, they have gone to the same elite schools and universities. Says Norishige Hasegawa, chairman of Sumitomo Chemical...
Toufexis' struggle to pin down details of the interferon story was made smoother by Adrianne Jucius, whose academic background in biological sciences and experience in hospitals and in medical research have been put to constant use during her three years as TIME'S Medicine reporter-researcher. Jucius, who has worked on previous cover stories on recombinant DNA (April 18, 1977), the first test-tube baby (July 31, 1978) and the escalating costs of American health care (May 28, 1979), found this week's assignment one of the most poignant of her career. "Like many people," she says...
...sculpture, the San Marco horses do not really equal the massive, noble modeling and sheer formal energy of the Marcus Aurelius. The curves of the horse at the Met are almost languid, its transitions smoother, the sense of muscular tension and vigor less commanding. But it is still magnificent, even in comparison with the other sculptures at the show; among these is a bronze horse's head from the Florence Archaeological Museum which, with its flaring, taut musculature, rhythmic neck folds and elegantly articulated mane, is the very essence of forceful Hellenistic realism...