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...critic of such gambits is Bard President Leon Botstein, who scorns them as "desperate marketing of a silly kind" designed for show rather than education. Citing his plan, which is limited to students who rank among the top ten in their high school classes, Botstein says, "We've thrown a gauntlet down to other places on the issues of quality and merit...
...landscape into symbols of freedom, and thus manages to turn a young girl's random travels into a symbolic human odyssey. Until the end, you feel the movie is as much about the people she's met as about Mona herself, with a little about humanity in general thrown in. Mona's death scene at the end of the film completely destroys the subtle mood it has worked so hard to create, but regardless of the disappointing end, the fascinated detachment with which you watch this film is different and more powerful than most movie-watching experiences, and should...
...defiance of the American television networks, against the wishes of much of the amateur athletic world and without the blessing of the Reagan Administration, Atlanta Yachtsman and Cable TV Impresario Ted Turner has thrown himself a Moscow Olympics complete with flags, anthems and accusations of cheating. To the strains of dueling boycotts, the U.S. and U.S.S.R. had been avoiding each other on the playground for ten years until last week. Opening the Goodwill Games, Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev referred to "the lurking catastrophe" and "the dangerous race toward the abyss" in his cheerful welcome to some 70 nations, not including...
...answer was not long in coming. By 2 p.m. on voting day, Colude, a nonpartisan civic group that monitored the election, reported that P.A.N. poll watchers had been thrown out of 33 polling stations and supplanted by impostors who beat them to the job in 21 others. Observers also said that ballot boxes had been stuffed with P.R.I. votes in 54 districts and stolen in four others. Hardly had the polls closed when the ruling party announced a sweeping victory in all but one of 67 contested municipalities. "What can you say?" said one Reagan Administration official of the blatant...
Four Palestinians commandeered the Achille Lauro off the Egyptian coast and demanded that Israel release 51 jailed Palestinians. Klinghoffer was shot to death and thrown overboard...