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Richard L. Strauss, a senior at the University of California, Los Angeles, arrived in Manchester three weeks ago to work full-time at Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton's Manchester headquarters. He was told he'd be working up to 14 hours...
...sees a world with ideas in constant conflict: an original idea or state of existence (called the "thesis") automatically leads to the development of its own contradiction (called the "anitithesis"). The thesis and antithesis, after struggling with each other, form the "synthesis." Great Thinkers love this idea. Marx, Levi-Strauss an similar types found Great Truths in this idea of Hegel...
Boston Symphony Orchestra--with conductor Seiji Ozawa and pianist Maria Tipo performs Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 21 in C, K. 467 and Strauss's "An Alpine Symphony." in Boston's Symphony Hall. Thursday, Dec. 12 at 10:30 a.m. (open rehearsal) and 8 p.m. and Friday, Dec. 13 at 2 p.m. For tickets and ticket information call Symphony Charge...
...weeks ago, the vice president of the Russian Federation, Alexander Rutskoi, quietly informed U.S. Ambassador Robert Strauss about an early version of a speech that had been prepared for Boris Yeltsin to deliver last Monday, on the eve of Gorbachev's departure for Madrid. The draft declared the U.S.S.R. defunct and Yeltsin's government the protector of 25 million ethnic Russians in the outlying republics...
...Strauss notified Washington about what Yeltsin might say, and Bush fired back instructions for him to register official American concern with Rutskoi and Yeltsin's foreign minister, Andrei Kozyrev -- in effect, an appeal to make the speech less provocative. In the version Yeltsin finally delivered, he announced a new round of radical economic reforms, virtually dissolved most of the Soviet ministries and nominated himself to the vacant post of Russian prime minister. But he stopped just short of proclaiming Russia the successor state to the U.S.S.R., effective immediately...