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...appreciated that the primary function of the Review, at least in our eyes, was to provide undergraduates with a place where they could learn how to write an essay, to edit, to solicit subscriptions: where students could experience working on a political magazine. The institute, I believe, wants to transform the Review from a forum for student writing into a press for bureaucrats and professors...

Author: By Alexander Kaplen, | Title: Political Review Should Be Independent | 2/26/1986 | See Source »

...UCLA campus), a centrally located small orchestra of 24 is surrounded by six soloists scattered around the room, performing at various times on amplified xylophone, vibraphone, cimbalom, harp, celesta, electric organ, two pianos and percussion. The sounds are fed into a bank of computer-synthesizers, which alter and transform them according to a predetermined program and project them out again through loudspeakers hung over and around the audience. The drama lies in the confrontation between the acoustic and the amplified instruments. Ghostly trills float above rumbling repeated figures, brasses punch out long discordant lines, and the shimmering whoosh of woodwinds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pierre Boulez: The Soul of a New Machine | 2/24/1986 | See Source »

...this week's women's basketball notebook to attempt to explain just what the Crimson has done to transform its 2-10, last-place Ivy finish of a year ago into its 8-3, first-place standing of this year--with but one game remaining...

Author: By Geoffrey Simon, | Title: A 'How To': The Ivy Title | 2/19/1986 | See Source »

Besides bashing their competitors, the Saudis have long-term reasons for opening the floodgates. By lowering prices they hope to boost worldwide consumption, which energy-saving measures have forced down by about 18% since 1977. The Saudis also want to transform some of their huge oil reserves into cash or other assets that can earn interest instead of just sitting in the ground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: the Price War Is Here | 2/17/1986 | See Source »

...definition of "faction" than political action committees (PACs). Created as a result of a federal election law reform, PACs have steadily--and ironically--mushroomed into a powerful tool for influencing legislation. And as the PACs have grown, so too have the number of congressmen who know how to transform skillfully the groups' ready and generous campaign contributions into repeated electoral victories...

Author: By Gary D. Rowe, | Title: Sending the PACs Packing | 2/4/1986 | See Source »

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