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Jointly sponsored by Harvard's Center for Jewish Studies, the Jacob and Libby Goodman Institute for the Study of Zionism at Brandeis University and the Zalman Shazar Center for Jewish History in Jerusalem, the Boston segment of the conference ends today. The centennial conference will reconvene in Jerusalem, from...
...woman (Brigitte Bako), torn between the hunk she's secretly sleeping with and the hunk she's engaged to, has just committed suicide, and her fiance reads the journal after her funeral. That pretty much wraps up the plot of this Showtime movie, directed by soft-core wizard Zalman King (9 1/2 Weeks, Wild Orchid). The film's heavy-breathing style -- sensuous slow-motion, arty dissolves, fetishistic close-ups -- is too studied to be erotic, but there's one thing in its favor: it looks like nothing else...
There may have been a step in that direction in a meeting last Friday between Secretary of State James Baker and Zalman Shoval, Israel's ambassador to the U.S. Baker reportedly proposed to condition the loan guarantees on Israel's agreement not to begin any new construction in the territories. Officials in Washington refused to confirm the reports, insisting that the Baker-Shoval meeting was just the first of a series and that no deal was likely for at least another month...
...Israeli Embassy, Ambassador Zalman Shoval declined to rule out a retaliatory strike but also said a response from Israel "would not necessarily have the character of retribution." He said "it's not necessarily eye for and eye" but how best to protect the Israeli people...
University of Chicago Professor of Education Zalman Usiskin directs part of a reform project to attack failings that the studies point out. Among his proposed first steps: development of well-trained math specialists to supplement the typical all-purpose teacher in the early grades. Usiskin will study translations of a number of foreign texts. "We can use them for ideas," he says. Further, he would move geometry and algebra preparation down into the seventh grade, leaving the later years free for advanced studies, including statistics and computers. Says Travers: "The demands of a high-tech society require that we upgrade...