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...speculation abhors a vacuum. Thus there have been reports that she is the niece of Gromyko (not true), that she is of Tatar descent and her actual patronymic is not Maximovna but the rather Asian-sounding Maksudovna ("I am absolutely Russian," she countered last year), that her father was a prominent official exiled to Siberia by Stalin (unlikely), that she has a brother-in-law who was a minor party official until he somehow embarrassed her husband (unconfirmed...
...Publication is really the only criteria fortenure," says Professor of German Maria M. Tatar,the chairman of the Germanic Languages andLiterature Department. Hiring decisions at Harvardare often based on a single criterion--the amountand quality of published research. And faculty saythat the other skills Harvard's junior womenfaculty have cultivated are consequently devaluedin the tenure decision process, as a result ofthis reliance on the candidate's bibliography...
...gain such cooperation from Sakharov the physicist, Gorbachev will have to woo Sakharov the human rights activist. The courtship may already have begun. On Dec. 19, Crimean Tatar Activist Mustafa Dzhemilev was freed from a Siberian labor camp after twelve years of prison and exile. Last week Yuri Lyubimov, a prominent Soviet theatrical director who was stripped of his citizenship two years ago for criticizing cultural restrictions, received a phone call in Washington from a former colleague at Moscow's Taganka Theater encouraging him to return home. Lyubimov believes the call was officially sanctioned, and is pursuing the overture...
...Soviets grow up and see the gulf between the Communist dream and reality, some fall back on job and family. Rifi, a red-haired Tatar who services diesel locomotives in Samarkand, declares ebulliently, "Best of all in my life I like my work." Others, however, are inclined to become cynical and apathetic. Tanya, 21, is an attractive Muscovite who works as a waitress. Married and divorced in her teens, she is content to drift through a day-to-day existence...
...three families who live in an imaginary town, about 80 miles from Krakow. Although the names change slightly over the centuries, each family's social position is rigid. The Buks, peasants, are subservient to the Bukowskis, minor nobles who in turn serve the Lubonskis, major nobles (magnates). From the Tatar invasion in 1241 to the modern union negotiations, these three families appear, and each performs the task dictated by his rank. The Buks tend the horses of the Bukowskis, who fight fearlessly for the causes chosen by the Lubonskis...