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...Crimson was paced by sophomore Andy Chao, who shot an eight-over-par 80, and junior Captain Mike Foster, who posted an 81-stroke total on Sunday. The remainder of the team fared nearly as well, with sophomore Dennis Crowley (81 strokes), junior Dave Friedman (84) and sophomore Dave Miller (91) rounding out Harvard's team stroke total...
...Cubism was a response to a changed world -- a France that was no longer describable in the semirural idyll of Impressionism, a place whose emergent reality had more to do with inventive technology, mass media and the density of the great capital, Paris. Cubism is the urban art par excellence. It celebrates the rapid stream of half-completed impressions, the overlay and stutter of images and ideas, enforced by the tempo of city life: it is the art of cultural compression and flux. With its materials, subjects and techniques, it lighted up the commonness of the modern world...
...Justice Department to initiate a probe. In July, Charles Chang, 47, former head of the FDA's generic-drug division, and two co-workers pleaded guilty to accepting a total of $24,300 in illegal gifts in exchange for preferential treatment. The favored firms: American Therapeutic Inc., Bohemia, N.Y.; Par Pharmaceutical, Spring Valley, N.Y.; and Par's subsidiary Quad Pharmaceuticals of Indianapolis. American Therapeutic has not been charged so far and denies any wrongdoing...
Oxford scholar Geza Vermes calls it "the academic scandal par excellence of the 20th century." Columbia University's Morton Smith protests that there is "no justification" for it. Fumes California State's Robert Eisenman: "We are tired of being treated contemptuously." Behind the scenes, scholars are exchanging bitter private letters and passing around bootlegged photos. What is all the fuss about? The protesters are referring to the long delay in making public many of the Dead Sea Scrolls, those mysterious documents discovered between 1947 and 1956 in caves 20 miles east of Jerusalem. As they see it, the world...
...state's credit rating is on par with Mississippi's. Spending is being slashed, and Dukakis just signed the largest tax hike in years into law. Suddenly, the great Massachusetts miracle doesn't seem so miraculous...