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Soloveitchik, 81, is known to his devotees as "the Rav," a Hebrew term of honor that means he is "the Rabbi." (Less reverential Jews on the right wing of Orthodoxy use just his initials "J.B.") As professor of Talmud since 1941 at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary in New...
Harvard is in the education business. With a faculty full of eminent scholars and a student body full of talent, the University is famous throughout the world for its work in the education business.
Members of the St. Paul summit faced the challenge of settling their differences not only with Mondale but also among themselves. Despite Jackson's success in the primaries, many black voters and office holders have mixed feelings about accepting him as their pre-eminent powerbroker. This division was apparent...
DIED. Alfred Knopf, 91, New York book publisher for 69 years who brought to American readers a large part of the best contemporary literature of Europe, the U.S. and Latin America; in Purchase, N.Y. With his indispensable assistant Blanche Wolf, whom he married in 1916 (she died in 1966), Knopf...
You can look it up. For those who still accept without question the hokum that too often issues from the mouths of eminent personages, Christopher Cerf, co-conspirator in such truly dangerous works of spoofery as Not the New York Times (1978), together with Victor Navasky, editor of that sobersided...