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Translators do not ordinarily achieve such renown, and the wry, soft-spoken foreign-language professor seems bemused by his success in a career he never planned. "It was serendipity all the way," he says. Little in his childhood suggested he would someday become a bridge across Latin and Anglo cultures...
Few scientific endeavors have generated more excitement than research into superconductivity, which could lead to marvels like magnetically levitated trains. But U.S. companies may already be in danger of losing the markets for superconductor-based products. Says Senator John Glenn, who unveiled a new report from the Congressional Office of...
"Harvard has always received a much higher proportion of senior professors from other faculties. We have been able to do that because of our pulling power, and this ability has greatly contributed to the reputation of our faculty today," says President Bok. "It has been a deliberate and very successful...
Yet Gorbachev's chance to become the pre-eminent global figure of the late 20th century depends more on what he does at home than at summits. The cold war exists not because of a lack of understanding between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R.; it exists because they understand each...
On her remarkable journey from being a Newark secretary to one of the capital's pre-eminent political poets, she has acquired a dashing husband with an eye patch, Richard Rahn, an economist with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and a ten-month-old son with eyes as blue as...