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Atop a gray bluff overlooking Damascus, a palace of splendid proportions is slowly rising. When it is finished, it will be the residence of Syrian President Hafez Assad. The lofty home is testament to the adroit ways of Assad, a onetime air force commander who has dived and climbed his way through the stormy skies of Arab politics for 13 years. It is also something more: a gleaming symbol of Assad's faith in his future as a major powerbroker in the Middle East...
...John A. Roebling, the designer of the bridge. The first was 'that this greatest of bridges will not only be the greatest engineering work of the continent and of the age, it will be a work of art.' And secondly, 'It will last forever, as a testament to the community which builds it.' It is an expression of ourselves, he is saying, and we mean it to last...
...testament to the strength of postal politics. Besieged by a 22 million-piece mail campaign orchestrated by the nation's banking industry, the House last week voted by an overwhelming 382 to 41 to repeal the withholding for taxes of 10% of income from stock dividends and bank interest. Said Illinois Democrat Dan Rostenkowski, who as chairman of the Ways and Means Committee had reluctantly brought the repeal measure to a floor vote after a majority of the House demanded it: "Today we are conceding control of the tax system to a special interest that...
Flick adds that other Folk and Myth related projects he is overseeing include the study of wizardry in fantasy literature, of oral tradition in the New Testament, and of the changing image of the Persian epic, Shahnamen...
...schedule which is extraordinarily heavy even for her. "I never have the time to study," she says, wistfully. By 10 a.m. Stevens is on her way to her first class of the day, a discussion group (the Div School's equivalent to section) for "Introduction to the New Testament." She is cross-registered for this course at the Episcopal Divinity School (EDS) located just beyond Radcliffe Yard. The next 50 minutes are devoted to close textual exegesis of several New Testament passages on dominance hierarchies--the relations of master and slave, husband and wife, and society to individual. The class...