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...92nd Street Y was dubbed “The Harvard of Nursery Schools” by Victoria Goldman, author of the Manhattan Directory of Private Nursery Schools. “The admissions are just as difficult,” says the mother of super-preschoolers herself, and “the facilities are probably better than Harvard?...
That difficulty has been spotlighted by the resignation of Computer Scientist David Parnas from a nine-member Star Wars advisory panel on computing. Parnas, an American professor at the University of Victoria, in British Columbia, had worked with the Naval Research Laboratory since 1972, helping to develop battle computer programs for the Navy. But after attending the first meeting of his Star Wars committee in June and studying the problems involved, he turned in a letter of resignation. "Because of the extreme demands on the system and our inability to test it, we will never be able to believe, with...
...slowly in the opinion of some who work in the field, the show-business community has begun to help its own. Until a year ago many people in the arts, gay as well as straight, seemed to ignore what was happening around them. But when TV Producer Victoria Hamburg helped organize an AIDS Medical Foundation benefit in Manhattan, she quickly got help from Papp and the Shubert Organization, which lent a theater; Mike Nichols, who offered to direct; Saturday Night Live's Lorne Michaels, who volunteered to produce; and Phil Donahue, who came on as emcee. Performers filled the stage...
...Staff writer Victoria Kim can be reached at vkim@fas.harvard.edu...
...intimate way to encounter some of the artist's best-known works. A guide ushers visitors into the living area, which has been left largely as it was during De Chirico's life and displays dozens of his works. "He lived in his own museum," notes Victoria Noel-Johnson, project coordinator for the Giorgio and Isa de Chirico Foundation...