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...find such experiments naive, but beware. This show has a message in it, like a rock in a snowball. What do the invariably polite Japanese really think of the dozens of American artists in the past few decades who have tried to adopt the forms, or at least the rhetoric, of Zen brush painting? What do Americans' earnest spoutings about calligraphy, meaning any aesthetic scribble, convey to real calligraphers? Provincialism is a two-way street...
After Iowa and New Hampshire, the field narrows drastically, long before voters in larger states can cast a ballot. Most candidates must adopt an identical strategy: labor mightily for an early kill while preparing for an endurance run later. Schedule and rules, far more than issues and message, dominate...
...rebels' timing was impeccable. Najibullah, leader of the Moscow-backed regime in Afghanistan, was 15 minutes into his opening address at a National Assembly session called to adopt a new constitution giving him vast powers as President. Suddenly a rocket explosion shook the meeting hall. Three more blasts, each louder than the last, followed during the next few minutes. The beefy Najibullah, 41, known to his countrymen as "the Ox," never flinched as he outlined a policy of national reconciliation aimed at ending eight years of civil war. The rockets killed five people outside the hall, helping the rebels make...
...last twenty years, however, Intimacy and Sexuality studies have taken a huge leap forward. Even here at Harvard, which is notoriously slow to adopt new and progressive course materials, changes can be seen in the way people are dealing with their own personhood. Instead of frittering away their time with chess clubs as they may have in the 1950s, Harvard students of today are far more likely to spend their time in a sexuality discussion group, grappling with issues such as whether they prefer boys, girls, neither, or both...
...complied with the US laws governing registered foreign agents. Under these laws, the office must be staffed with American citizens and register its publications with the State Department. Secretary Schultz was not alone in this judgment; the American Civil Liberties Union and Congressman Barney Frank were also quick to adopt the PIO's cause. As for the UN mission, the US is bound by the 1947 "Headquarters Agreement" to allow UN personnel to stay in the US to carry out their duties. Since there has never been any formal charge of misconduct agaonst any PLO diplomat employed by either office...