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...take his own life in paradise? Yet it is also a place where dissidence is the badge of the patriot, and protesters underline Maxim Gorky's observation: "The Russian people ... learned to make sorrow a diversion ... made a carnival of grief; a fire is entertainment; and on a vacant face a bruise becomes an adornment...
...look in a doorway where an orthodox rabbi is chanting and moves on. Young punks denying their past! Oy vey! The screen explodes into surreal dance on the edges of razor blades, mouth-piercing safety pins, and the Sex Pistols growling. "We're so pretty, oh so pretty--vacant...
...deal that led to the payment began more than a year ago, when the city council voted to take the vacant lot by eminent domain. Based on an old appraisal, they paid Harvard $480,000 for the land...
Detroit School Superintendent Arthur Jefferson was a leading candidate for the vacant top job in the Chicago school system. He turned it down. No wonder. The nation's third largest school system, with 458,000 students, is racked by money problems. It will close ten schools this month, and a third of the extracurricular programs have been canceled. Unless fur ther budget cuts are made, the system faces a projected $46 million deficit. Convinced that no outsider could cope with Chicago politics, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, along with the five black members of the city's eleven-member...
Tales like this are all too familiar to the deans of U.S. engineering schools, who find themselves hopelessly outmatched in the intense competition for top talent in a soaring job market for engineers. Massachusetts Institute of Technology has been trying for four years to fill three vacant assistant professorships in the growing field of electrical engineering. The University of Illinois is desperately trying to recruit 30 more professors for an engineering staff that normally numbers 400. Nationally, the American Association of Engineering Societies reports that 2,000 college teaching jobs are going begging. Obsolete equipment is one reason. Some measuring...