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...Josephy Jr. From 1805 to 1877, Oregon's Nez Perce Indians were engaged in an epic struggle to preserve their identity; 750 of them retreated across four states until they were surrounded by U.S. troops and forced onto reservations. Author Josephy has written a big, thoroughly researched account of the trek...
Elsewhere, pragmatists plus a small minority of hawks dominate campuses. They account for about 90% of the students at Williams, 80% at Princeton and the University of Nebraska, 65% at Texas, 50% at Harvard and Wisconsin. Yale has some 800 hawks and 1,000 pragmatists among its 4,000 undergrads -plus about 1,500 apathetics...
...trade organization of personal-injury lawyers. It was advertising a seminar on how to get the big verdicts." As a "plodding general practitioner," Bowman reports with tongue-in-cheek hyperbole that he learned many a practical lesson on his visit to this "arche typical" personal-injury firm. His account, of course, is fictional, but the American Bar Association Journal found it fascinating enough to print...
...last year jumped to a record 1,797. The brokers - who thought up the largest share of these combinations - have a broad, objective view of the entire economy that enables them to make imaginative matches of companies in disparate industries. The middlemen may be blue-chip commercial bankers or account ants, such as Morgan Guaranty and Price Waterhouse, or management consultants or even public-relations...
...this big, splendidly researched history of the Nez Perce, Author Josephy never leaves any doubt about where his sympathies lie. By his colorfully documented account, the Nez Perce (Pierced Nose-a name given them by early French-speaking trappers because some braves wore bits of shell in their noses) were a notably peaceful tribe until provoked into rebellion by avaricious and cruel whites. He also paints the romanticized Indian-fighting army of the Old West as a shiftless and uninspired collection of sad sacks. In any pitched battle, Josephy maintains, Indians proved to be better fighters and better marksmen than...