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...last year, the slump has gradually spread to the heartland and other regions. The construction industry has creaked to a virtual halt after a decade of overbuilding. Says Paul Beitler, a Chicago developer: "The lights in our industry have just gone out. There are going to * be some very tragic times. Within the next four years, 50% of the workers in construction and real estate could be unemployed." Even in California, where the building market has known no direction but up, Kaufman and Broad Home Corp. of Los Angeles reported a 5% drop in third-quarter profits as nervous home...
...worse than 20th century Europe with its wars and concentration camps -- but because its cruelty, as Paz points out in his catalog essay, was indissolubly part of its "senseless and sublime" theological and moral system. "The Mesoamerican vision of the world and of man is shocking. It is a tragic vision that both stimulates and numbs me. It does not seduce me, but it is impossible not to admire it." So might some Russian of the 3rd millennium A.D. rhapsodize about the ancient sacrificial rites of Stalinism, immolating its millions to the God of the Future...
...Brahms trio was performed with considerably more finesse. The broad, tragic opening of the first movement has a striking harmonic similarity to Beethoven's fifth symphony, and the trio expressed this character very clearly. The Beaux Arts musicians seemed more in their element playing dense Romantic music than in the delicate and witty Haydn which preceded...
What is needed at this tragic juncture is not short-sighted sectarianism, but rather the unity and moral courage to redress injustice. It is tragic that even the Arab students at Harvard have fallen victim to compromising their sense of justice. It is time for all Arabs to recliam their sense of dignity, to uphld their common morality, by acting together to oppose aggression and liberate Kuwait...
...scenario--which presumes that Harvard's divestment would represent a genuine sanction, by no means a certain conclusion--ignores or downplays serious threats to "innocent bystanders," namely Blacks in South Africa and neighboring states. Even worse, the chances that economic sanctions will actually produce a peaceful resolution to the tragic situation in South Africa are almost...