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...City real estate broker, has no trouble selling eight-room apartments at an average price of $1,170,000, vs. $889,000 last year, many to Wall Street types, who typically pay 100% cash. Chairperson Barbara Corcoran sees only one difference from the '80s: "Then everybody bought with reckless abandon. In the '90s they put on a show of caution--and then they buy with reckless abandon...
Should Harvard forever abandon the idea of instituting an honor code? Rudenstine admitted he didn't know. He added that we would have to take Harvard's temperature--of faculty and students alike--to see if an honor code could work. I would like to think Harvard could handle it, that Harvard students could maintain the honor their signatures imply. But maybe that will have to wait another 360 years...
...President Suharto, who was behind the 1975 invasion, claims the question of East Timor's sovereignty was settled in 1976 when an local Indonesian-backed legislature voted for annexation. Citing millions of dollars spent to develop East Timor's infrastructure, schools and hospitals, Suharto?s government is unwilling to abandon the island even in the face of international disapproval...
...House Painters' songs are not about wild abandon, but abandonment; not about outward violence, or violence turned inward upon the self, but a kind of protective numbing of the emotional self following some interminable psychological chaos--a kind of writer's block, a lover's block. Bashfully and impulsively, their songs attempt to define themselves, to heal their centers, achieve form, succeed, each reaching out delicate as snail antennae hoping to rebut the past. Admittedly, as Kozelek acknowledged, his songs sometimes come off "whiny and pretentious" but most of the time meaningful, as when in "Uncle Joe" the narrator pleads...
...didn't they contact a confidential abortion clinic or adoption agency? In love, of age, did they consider getting married? Having gone through the ordeal of a covert birth, why didn't they leave the child at a hospital? True, young mothers, alone and terrified, have been known to abandon their newborns. But how could two secure, educated 18-year-olds convince themselves that this was the best of all alternatives? And if indeed they did crack the baby's skull, what possessed them to do so? To understand all is to forgive all, the old saying goes. Understanding Grossberg...