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...centers in areas as diverse as poverty, the press and the environment--and executive programs which train everyone from new mayors to national security officers--critics have charged that the expansion has left the school too broad and unfocused. Observers of the school say that the next dean will usher in a long-needed period of consolidation during which the school will have to internalize and digest the hasty growth of the Allison years...
...reductions in short-range nuclear weapons in Europe, the U.S. policy review is almost completed, and Secretary of State James Baker is due to drop the first authoritative hints on a two-day visit to Moscow this week. Shevardnadze was set to receive him eagerly on Wednesday and to usher Baker into a private room with Gorbachev on Thursday...
...family, indicating the loud presence of small people. But college students on spring break occasionally turn their beer-dousing noses away from Daytona Beach long enough to take in a game. Senior citizen Jack Keidel, who retired to Orlando some years ago and now works as a volunteer usher at Twins games, speaks for many of his peers when he says that baseball "breaks up the monotony of endless golf." A 14-year-old wearing a T shirt emblazoned with the face of the Reds' Chris Sabo, the N.L. Rookie of the Year in '88, says, "It's a toss...
Although scientists share many of these concerns, the concept of deciphering the human genome sends most of them into paroxysms of rapture. "It's the Holy Grail of biology," says Harvard biologist and Nobel laureate Walter Gilbert. "This information will usher in the Golden Age of molecular medicine," says Mark Pearson, Du Pont's director of molecular biology. Predicts George Cahill, a vice president at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute: "It's going to tell us everything. Evolution, disease, everything will be based on what's in that magnificent tape called...
Some U.S. Congressmen had urged Bush to usher human rights to the forefront of the U.S. dialogue with China, as is the case with the Soviet Union. But White House officials acknowledged that Bush never raised the issue directly in his private talks with China's top leader, Deng Xiaoping, and Premier Li Peng. The Chinese did, though. Toward the end of a wide-ranging 90-minute conversation on Sunday afternoon, Communist Party General Secretary Zhao Ziyang told Bush that dissidents threatened to upset the social order, which would "provide a pretext for the turning back of ((economic)) reforms." American...