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DIED. Philip K. Hitti, 92, Syrian-born Orientalist and professor of Semitic literature at Princeton (1926-54) who pioneered the study of Arabic and Islamic cultures in the U.S.; in Princeton...
...China had opened up considerably in recent months," John K. Fairbank '29, Higginson Professor of History Emeritus, said yesterday. "The signing of the treaty is just one step...
...Gore also proposes what he calls "retirement savings plus": a plan for voluntary, tax-free savings accounts similar to 401(k)s that can be used to supplement Social Security. Workers who earn as much as $100,000 a year will receive federal matching funds (in the form of tax credits) of as much as $1,500 a year...
Although the top three racquetwomen fell to their opponents, steller performances by Eleanor Cunningham, captain Jenny Stone,k Margo McGlade and Courtney Stimpson carried the squad past Brown in its first crucial match of the year...
Great Stud-Farms of the World by Monique and Hans D. Dossenbach, Hans Joachim Köhler (Morrow; 289 pages; $35). The authors have composed an encyclopedic and lushly illustrated celebration of horses and the places where they are bred. Surely the animal has not received such intelligently loving attention since Siegfried Sassoon published his Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man in 1928. After tracing the history of horse breeding to the time when the animals first entered the service of man some 5,000 or 6,000 years ago, probably in the steppes north of the Caucasus, the authors...