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...poetry last night. Poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti received the New England Poetry Club’s (NEPC) annual Golden Rose prize and read his work to a packed Yenching Auditorium audience in an event co-sponsored by the NEPC and Harvard’s Signet Society. NEPC president Diana Der-Hovanessian called Ferlinghetti “a vital voice” and an “American conscience” as she awarded him the Golden Rose. The award has been presented since 1920 to the writer deemed by the NEPC to have had the greatest influence on American poetry...
...price of the $5 admission to the reading equals the monthly salary for a college professor in Armenia due to the blockade by Turkey, said Diana Der-Hovanessian, president of the New England Poetry Club...
Sitting atop a desk in a corridor of the conference hall, Hovanessian was incensed at the skepticism he faced. "It's very shabby of these American colleagues who questioned the results," he said. "While I was talking, Gallo was sitting in the front row laughing all the time." Alternating between French and English, Hovanessian rejected the idea that his announcement was premature. "You don't think I would just come up with something like this, throw it out there and say, voila, take it?" he asked. "We have had these results in hand since April and have repeated the whole...
...skeptics were Americans, however. "I don't see the beginning of a proof," fumed Jacques Liebowitch of the Raymond Poincare Hospital near Paris. "The press has already whipped this up into a major breakthrough, and now we find that there is nothing to it." Even Hovanessian's own colleagues at Pasteur seemed somewhat reserved. "It's a very interesting paper," said Francoise Barre-Sinoussi, who helped Montagnier isolate the AIDS virus. "The danger is that whenever there is something interesting in this field, it gets blown out of proportion. There are other experiments to do, and I'm sure Hovanessian...
...Hovanessian and his team have submitted their research to the journal Science, where experts will review it before publication. Pasteur's head of vaccine research, Marc Girard, nicely described the promising but precarious place in which his colleague's research stands: "If these results are reproduced in the next weeks or months by one or two other labs in the U.S. and elsewhere, then it's fantastic, because that would mean Hovanessian has really discovered something new. But we have to get to that stage before we can get excited...