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Last fall, Harvard's Division of Applied Sciences undertook an extensive survey of its roughly 300 undergraduate concentrators to discover whether they felt the division's computer science program made sense...
...PASSIONS of Shatila and Sabra slowly become part of history, and negotiations get under way to evacuate all foreign troops from Lebanon, Israelis are beginning to ask themselves what the war they undertook this summer has accomplished. Even those who opposed the "Peace for Galilee" mission from the start admit one clear cut fact: by removing the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) from Lebanon, Israel has insured the security of its borders from outside aggression for the foreseeable future. With the siege of Beirut, Prime Minister Begin closed a circle he began at Camp David. Begin has created peace--albeit...
...irrepressible Erté undertook a new genre, the serigraph. His remarkable technical skills, combined with an innovative use of color, gold and silver, proved to be ideal for serigraphs and lithographs. By the 1980s Erté had become one of the most popular graphic artists creating fine-art prints. Many have been splendidly reproduced in a new volume, Erté at Ninety; The Complete Graphics (E.P. Dutton; $75). On the cover is Beauty and the Beast, a serigraph of the quintessential Erté woman, who still rules his world. Coiffed in a peacock's tail, she has wrapped...
...gifts will benefit about 6000 refugees, mostly women, children and elderly men, who fled to the camps in late 1980 after the Salvadoran military undertook a "clean-up campaign" to root out leftist guerillas, Ronan said...
...years he spent completing first an M.A. and then a Ph.D. on the legal aspects of East-west trade. "At Harvard, my mind was set on fire," he writes. "I spent my night in the second basement in the dust that Dr. Newton had ordered me to avoid. I undertook detailed and captivating research, deciphering unpublished manuscripts in several languages...