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Rethinking Columbus from Historical, Church and Native Perspectives-a symposium with Hans Koning, former reporter for The New Yorker. At the Paulist Center at 5 Park St. in Boston. Call 742-4460. The $10 fee includes coffee and light lunch. Saturday from 9:30 a.m. until...
...catalog is massive, with 23 essays by various hands -- a long symposium. The '20s, Clair points out, were the first "name" decade in cultural history. In an older and slower-changing Europe, cultural periods were identified with long reigns -- the age of Pericles, Louis XIV. But now, in a time of fantastically accelerated communications and stylistic shifts, what Clair calls "the tyranny of the short term" begins: rapid identifiable packaging in culture...
...growing acceptance was apparent at this year's meeting of the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons, where for the first time a symposium was held on back manipulation, and about one-third of surgeons present admitted referring patients for the technique. Some 30 hospitals around the country now have chiropractors on staff, and multidisciplinary clinics that offer both medical and chiropractic care have sprung up in several urban centers. In addition, a small band of "research" chiropractors has begun testing the method in carefully designed clinical trials. "Manipulative medicine," declares Dr. Nortin Hadler, a rheumatologist at the University of North...
...discussion dealt with international involvement in environmentalism and development, focusing particularly on the 1992 United Nations conference in Rio de Janeiro. It was the final event of a day-long symposium sponsored by the Kennedy School Energy and Environment Student Interest Group and the International Development Interest Group...
Rights and Responsibilities, the magazine's subtitle, represents shorthand for a public debate that extends far beyond Etzioni and his coterie. William F. Buckley Jr. in his latest book, Gratitude, puts an old-line conservative imprimatur on national service. The February issue of Harper's features a symposium on whether the Constitution needs a "Bill of Duties" to offset the Bill of Rights. The Harper's panel, which included Harvard law professor Mary Ann Glendon, a co-editor of Responsive Community, came to no firm conclusion. But Glendon conveyed a sense of how communitarians view personal responsibility with this hypothetical...