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Gleason, who was granted tenure without a Ph.D. after he had solved the notoriously difficult Hilbert problem, focuses his academic work on topology and space mathematics. David Hilbert, a German mathmetician, proposed a series of about 10 problems he considered the most pressing math questions unsolved at the turn of...

Author: By Katherine E. Bliss, | Title: Integrating Math and Students | 10/7/1988 | See Source »

It is possible to foresee a deal that would meet those conditions. The U.S. still retains billions of dollars in frozen Iranian assets, and Iran is pressing claims to them before the Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal in the Hague. The U.S. could offer to speed up those proceedings without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diplomacy To Deal or Not to Deal | 10/3/1988 | See Source »

Moreover, 1988 has become the Year of the Handler partly because of the great voids this time. Among them: the lack of visceral issues to shape the campaign, the absence of a commanding personality on either ticket, and the fuzziness of the national mood on both economic and foreign policy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's The Year Of the Handlers | 10/3/1988 | See Source »

The fight over succession really began in mid-August, just before the scheduled parliamentary election, when former President Sulieman Franjieh, 78, a close friend of Syrian President Hafez Assad, announced his candidacy. Assad, whose 40,000 troops in Lebanon reinforce his claim to be the country's dominant power broker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lebanon Religious Differences | 10/3/1988 | See Source »

Or, as it happens, a pressing need. Director Clint Eastwood's vision of the jazz scene of the 1950s is touched, appropriately, by the austere romanticism of '50s existentialism. It is a circle of sheltering darkness, where the time is always 'round midnight, the mood is always accepting (it's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: More Than One Note at a Time BIRD Directed | 10/3/1988 | See Source »

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