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...think many people feel left out and I think this letter is useful in that regard," said William H. Bossert, Arnold professor of science. "He said he is working with the advisory committee and that's great...

Author: By Julian E. Barnes, | Title: New FAS Dean May Take Over by July 1 | 5/8/1991 | See Source »

Just a few years ago, Japan loomed as anenvironmentalist's nightmare. While the rest of the world was awakening to an unfolding ecological calamity, Japan was defiantly importing such environmentally sensitive items as ivory and tropical timbers without apparent regard for the consequences. More recently, however, Japan has begun to turn around. The nation imposed a moratorium on ivory imports, altered fishing practices that threaten sea life, and has begun to discuss reducing its consumption of tropical woods. Part of the credit for the change must go to Yoichi Kuroda, a Japanese environmental activist who exposed the mayhem wrought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Saviors Of the Planet | 4/29/1991 | See Source »

...ragged, can be lacerating. The medium destroys sequence. Reading restores to the mind a stabilization of linear prose, a bit of the architecture of thought. First one sentence, then another, building paragraphs, whole pages, chapters, books, until eventually something like an attention span returns and perhaps a steadier regard for cause and effect. War (and television) shatters. Reading, thought reconstruct. The mind in reading is active, not passive-depressive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Best Refuge For Insomniacs | 4/29/1991 | See Source »

Although neither Yale nor Columbia is "that much in the race," according to senior captain Marcel Durand, the Crimson still must regard each game as all-important with only ten league games left to play...

Author: By Katy Schmid, | Title: Batsmen Face Elis, Lions | 4/27/1991 | See Source »

...countryman and fellow High Modernist James Joyce, and Beckett's text echoes that author's characteristic wit and precision. In a sense the play is a dramatic translation of Joyce's project--the static narration of a moment of consciousness, undertaken merely for its own sake, without regard for the conventional rules of narrative or dramatic representation...

Author: By Carey Monserrate, | Title: This Play Keeps Us Waiting | 4/25/1991 | See Source »

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