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...example, the text on Philosophy tells students to study the subject because the material is easy and makes them feel smart. 'Poonsters say that with the guide, even the impenetrable text of Kantian philosophy becomes wonderfully clear...
Judging from his best-selling work, Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In, Fisher can express himself well on paper. In fact, relaxing in his Pound Hall office, Fisher's eyes glow when he opens a text that includes one of his essays as an example of clear prose...
...sure, the text has been nudged into modernity in the new translation and adaptation by Adrian Mitchell. His version took London by storm last season, winning an Olivier Award, and makes its U.S. debut at California's Berkeley Repertory Theater. The language is vernacular, sometimes vulgar, and even titled characters are stripped of grandeur and persiflage. The multiracial casting reflects contemporary America more than feudal Spain. Stylistically, the 20th century influence of Bertolt Brecht is evident throughout in the Marxist class analysis, didactic political sloganeering and use of song and dance to preach...
...that refrain must sound all too familiar to Gorbachev, who still seems to prefer that Ryzhkov jump rather than be pushed. Even though Gorbachev has come out in support of the Shatalin program, his proposed changes in the text suggest he also has a certain ambivalence about taking the final grand leap into a market economy. With tensions mounting across the country, whether cigarette riots in provincial Russia or border skirmishes in the Caucasus, Gorbachev cannot help being concerned about what might result from added chaos in the economy. Last week he sent out a presidential telegram to regional leaders...