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After a number of disturbing claims by Haitians claiming to be zombies, the Centre de Psychiatrie et Neurologie in Port au Prince, Haiti had requested help from ethnobiologists in the United States...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Find Explains Duke's `Death' | 2/8/1986 | See Source »

After all, most of the major architects of the Vietnam War were Harvard men (McGeorge Bundy, Robert McNamara, et. al), while the driving forces behind Reagan's Rambo-style foreign policy carry the Crimson banner with pride, among them Cap Weinberger and Richard Pipes...

Author: By Jack Trumpbour, | Title: Hurray for the Hasty | 2/3/1986 | See Source »

...performed by the Philadelphians and Soloist Gregory Fulkerson. Finally, Dvorak's undeservedly neglected Fifth Symphony received a taut performance that, among other virtues, was notable for the breathtaking precision of the strings. Two days later in Philadelphia, Muti took an Apollonian view of Berlioz's sprawling "dramatic symphony," Romeo et Juliette, featuring Soprano Jessye Norman and Bass-Baritone Simon Estes. For all its splendor, however, the performance could have used more intensity and less Gallic detachment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: A Transformation in Philadelphia | 2/3/1986 | See Source »

Extremism in the defense of liberty may be no vice, as an old politician once said, but Jerry Williams et. al. carry the concept of liberty to an insupportable extreme...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Buckle Up | 1/24/1986 | See Source »

...many years, Roman Catholics who were present in St. Peter's Square when the Pope delivered his traditional Christmas and Easter blessings urbi et orbi (to the city and the world) have been offered the opportunity for a plenary indulgence. In Catholic teaching, such a papal grant from the spiritual "treasury of merits" built up by Christ, Mary and the saints means that the recipient is freed from punishment in purgatory for sins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Christmas Gift | 12/30/1985 | See Source »

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