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...they come in droves for a few days to observe and live vicariously through their sons and daughters. There will be many panels, speeches and meetings to present the administration's idea of what life at Harvard is really like. But when the administrators ask for questions, parents often wonder what they should say. Thus, as a service to junior parents, we are providing a list of questions to take with you to your panel discussions and official welcomes. And should you encounter an administrator over the course of this weekend, flag him or her down, whip out your copy...
...canvas on the cheap and then resell it to a foreign collector for a huge profit after bribing Culture Ministry officials to grant an export license or securing a legal move to lift the ban on exports. With three other Black Squares in Russian museums, they wonder, does the state desperately need a fourth? "The cries of saving Malevich for Russians are nonsense," says Konstantin Akinsha, a U.S.-based historian of Russian art. "This smells of greed and chicanery...
...foundations. These have become minor tourist attractions (presidential libraries combined get some 2 million visitors annually) and, in some cases, major employment programs for the ex-Presidents' pals. Because the presidency keeps getting bigger, so do the libraries. Gerald Ford's library has more documents than F.D.R.'s. No wonder Presidents leave office with a tin cup in hand. "They've become mendicants in some ways," says a presidential-library official. L.B.J. got the Texas legislature to help fund his; George Bush received $1 million each from Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. And Clinton is hoping to hustle contributions well north...
Remember when that song was about your mother? You do? Too bad. In that case, now it's about you. The very thought is enough to send a chill down the spines of most baby boomers, who already have plenty of reasons to wonder if they haven't started looking as old as Paul McCartney. (And remember, he was the Cute Beatle.) At one time it probably seemed that rock music was entirely yours, a thing that you could imagine grew out of your own fevered brain. Now a good slice of it apparently belongs to somebody else, somebody...
Whatever you do, don't assume that you can reliably diagnose the condition yourself. "We get calls all the time from people who have been gluten-free for six months or a year and now wonder if they have celiac disease," says Sue Goldstein, founder of the Westchester Celiac Support Group in New York. By then, diagnosis is very difficult; the telltale antibodies will have disappeared, and the intestinal biopsy may not show anything wrong. You may even have to re-expose yourself to wheat--and get sick again--to prove that your gut instinct was right...