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After dabbling in student journalism and instrumental music, but never acting, Hwang conceived the notion that he was meant to be a playwright. His first work for the stage portrayed a musician asserting his own divinity. What the author remembers most about it is a professor's remark that he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DAVID HENRY HWANG: When East And West Collide | 8/14/1989 | See Source »

Faust's husband Charles Rosenberg, a pre-eminent historian of science who teaches at Penn, also has received a tenure offer from Harvard. Faust said yesterday that she and Rosenberg were "very seriously considering" their offers and planned to visit Cambridge next month before reaching a final decision this fall...

Author: By Joseph R. Palmore, | Title: Bok Extends Tenure To Two Historians | 7/11/1989 | See Source »

Though Pickens was rebuffed, his Tokyo crusade may pay other dividends. Pickens is believed to be interested in making a run for the Texas governorship, so his Japanese offensive may be calculated to play well back home. Koito, for its part, is launching its own publicity offensive, contending that if...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: T. Boone's Tokyo Campaign | 7/10/1989 | See Source »

The sun has long been pre-eminent in human thoughts and actions. Almost from the beginning, people worshiped the sun as the beneficent provider of light and life, and as a god, called Ra by the Egyptians, Helios by the Greeks and Sol by the Romans. To the Aztecs, the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Fury on The Sun | 7/3/1989 | See Source »

EVEN if the University divests from South Africa, however, the need for dissenting views on the Board will not disappear. No institution in our society--with the possible exception of the judiciary--has a greater responsibility than a university to guarantee the free expression of ideas. As one of the...

Author: By Colin F. Boyle, | Title: Toward Non-Issue Overseers | 6/26/1989 | See Source »

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