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...millennium, the cultures of east and west have collided in this mountainous corner of the Balkans, and each of today's conflicts exposes layers of the past. Friction between the various republics may reflect the conflict between Roman Catholicism and Greek Orthodoxy, or Islam and Christianity, or Slav and Turk, or Slav and German. Yugoslavs do not even share an alphabet: Serbia uses Cyrillic script; Croatia and Slovenia, Roman. As the old British dictum went, Yugoslavia is a small country with big problems -- six republics, five nationalities, four languages, three religions, two alphabets and one political party. The only change...
...happy to hear that the University has its own Merrill Lynch of sorts: the Harvard Management Co. (HMC). HMC has made the University a major player in the stock market, as well as in high-risk fields such as venture capital and lever-aged buyouts. Its young-turk money managers (think of Charlie Sheen in the movie Wall Street) pull down salaries of more than $1 million a year. This fall, HMC will have a new president, Jack R. Meyer, who is currently treasurer of the Rockefeller Foundation...
...conservatives begin to realize the urgency of urban problems and as "Young Turk" Republicans like House Minority Whip Newt Gingrich urge greater inclusiveness in the GOP, the times seem to have finally caught up with the visionary Jack Kemp. Someone to watch in 1996, Kemp is the Republican's best hope for the future--and the Democrats' worst fear...
...struck me in those first few council meetings as a kind of haranguing of all of us," says Michael H. Turk, a leader of the Cambridge Tenants Union. "His filibustering only lengthened the evening, it didn't effect the outcome...
...lack work opportunities anytime soon. Covent Garden is on the telephone, pleading that she not cancel a new La Sonnambula because the agreed-upon director has just withdrawn. Italian maestro Riccardo Chailly, who is on her very short list of preferred conductors, wants her for Rossini's The Turk in Italy, not exactly on opera's hit parade, but that does not matter to Anderson. Major new productions have been lined up in Chicago (finally, perhaps, a satisfying Lucia) and San Francisco (La Sonnambula), as well as a new Semiramide next season...