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...Schama is already widely respected as one of the top European history scholars in the world. Author of two books and numerous articles, he has received a number of prizes and awards for his work, including the Wolfson Literary Prize for History for his book, Patriots and Liberators: Revolution in the Netherlands, 1780-1813. Before coming to Harvard as a professor last year, Schama taught at Cambridge and Oxford in England and at the Aspen Institute of Humanistic Studies in Colorado. In 1978 he lectured at Brandeis and at Harvard...
...understand the full scope of pending legislation. Across the country, thanks to proselytizing by pro-choice activists, the threat posed by the Human Life Statute is beginning to hit home. NOW is organizing door-to-door drives in many communities, and NARAL is setting up local branches. Alice Wolfson, of the Coalition for Medical Rights of Women, has been working in California to mobilize support. Says she: "We have placards warning that abortion will be outlawed unless we do something now-all of us. We're bringing out women who had illegal abortions so people will remember the past...
John Balbus and Paul Wolfson have written about as enjoyable a Pudding Show as you could hope for--and, I suppose, if they had written anything different the show would have gone to someone else's script. But it's to Michael Schubert's music that Serfs Up! really owes its energy. Schubert wrote the score for last year's A Little Knife Music; this year's score seems far the better--more memorable tunes, more intricate ensemble writing, and a generally more subtle, less showy approach. His references are, well, eclectic--there are snatches of Brahms, the Beach Boys...
When the Sasse scandal first set alarm bells ringing, Lloyd's commissioned a review of exchange procedures from an independent "working party" headed by Sir Henry Fisher, president of Wolfson College, Oxford. Lloyd's Chairman Green expects the report, due this spring, will give him the evidence to convince Parliament that a new act is necessary. Says he: "We operate largely under the 1871 act, which creaks and groans like mad. We have to have rules to back our authority. We need discipline in the system...
...desire for the resolution of the Palestinian problem. To that end they have been and still are meeting with Palestinians to discuss various solutions. They cannot however negotiate with the terrorist PLO, whose bargaining strategy continues to be murdering women and children in market places and schools.Jeremy Benstein Amy Wolfson '82 Harvard-Radcliffe Zionists Alliance