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Man, Cobb maintains, must somehow come to believe once again that nature has "some claim upon him, some intrinsic right to exist and to prosper." As one path to such a belief, Cobb proposes a kind of ecological asceticism, a stripping away of the cocoon of contemporary affluence that dulls...
USI is different in other ways as well. It never raids, exerts financial but not operating control over the companies that come into its fold, and has no desire to acquire large corporations. It owns 110 medium-sized companies in seven fields as disparate as health clubs, plastics, mobile homes...
A few weeks ago, Texas Eastern Transmission Corp., the gas pipeline giant, spent more than $55 million to acquire 46 acres on the edge of downtown Houston. In association with Brown & Root, the big construction company, Texas Eastern intends to build a $1.5 billion office-and-apartment development. Metropolitan Life...
If Pusey himself burned down Shannon Hall, it would be great fun but irrelevant to the issue of the war. For better or worse, the universities are permanently caught up in the cash nexus of the federal government. To disentangle Washington and Cambridge would sabotage Harvard financially and force it...
It is events like these, as well as the "aggressive" foreign policy and "expansionist" sentiment that make the Israelis seem like hawks and imperialists. But the Israelis do not-and cannot-see it this way. Except for a minority who view an expanded Israel as a fulfillment of God's...