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Adam Cohen, current president of the Harvard Law Review and a 1984 magna cum laude at Harvard, came because "there's so much here." Cohen comments, however, that the students tend to be a "very careerist group with a bloodthirsty desire to get ahead." Bok agrees, not happily. He reports...
"We're in Kansas, and there seem to be a whole lot of tornadoes directly overhead," Wyman good-naturedly told TIME last week, "along with some that never took place." Wyman denied he is leaving CBS and pointed out that Tisch is still within his agreed-upon limit of 25...
At first many beverage companies were paralyzed by the problem, having successfully produced the same old-favorite brands year after year. Now suddenly the liquor, beer and wine companies seem to have hit on the right formula for keeping their customers in a drinking mood. They have decided to win...
Even after we come to accept the names imposed on us, or acquire ones we like, we still have some difficulty in agreeing on what to call one another. In England it is considered very proper and Oxbridgian to address a man simply by his last name. Most Americans call...
The word comfortable did not acquire its modern meaning until the 18th century; its original Latin root, confortare, means to console, as in Jesus comforting the afflicted. The medieval citizen who used the word in that sense could scarcely use it about his house, which generally consisted of one large...