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Scorched Earth; Officials at Hoffmann-La Roche, the Swiss-based company that owns Icmesa, have urged Italian authorities to destroy the factory, tear down houses, burn the surrounding vegetation and skim off a foot of topsoil over the entire area affected by the TCDD. Italian officials have not yet decided to adopt such a scorched-earth policy. But army troops have so far evacuated more than 700 people from villages near the plant, and authorities have ordered blood tests on some 15,000 people in the area. Officials are also taking some controversial steps to confine the effects...
...director, and the word around Bayreuth is that the irreverent Stein proposed a Ring cycle without music. Wagner's next pick, suggested by Boulez, was Chéreau, the current enfant terrible of the Paris stage, whose only previous ventures into opera were an iconoclastic Tales of Hoffmann in Paris and Rossini's L'ltaliana in Algeri at Spoleto. ("You should watch this young man," said Luchino Visconti, director of The Damned and Death in Venice, in 1969. "This...
Army Secretary Martin Hoffmann, who spoke at commencement, gave the code a more ringing vote of confidence, then promptly qualified it. He described the code as a "timeless" statement of principles. But, he said after the ceremonies, "if conditions warrant, we'll make changes...
...Aldrich's considered opinion--after walking around Harvard a bit, talking with a few undergraduates, dropping in on Stanley Hoffmann and classmate L. Fred Jewett '57--that the place has gone to seed. ("Rumor is hardening to conviction," his article begins, "that Harvard University is in decline.") Pathetic lies abound at Harvard's decline to the spirit of guilt and "fairness" he sees running rampant here--a spirit that tramples diversity in the name of egalitarianism. (In that respect, he laments the passing of master's choice from the House selection process...
...Steve Hoffmann...