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Crimson reporters can attest to the great reluctance that I have hitherto shown to add fuel to the dispute between Sociology and Social Studies. But Acting Sociology Department Chair Orlando Patterson's "commentary" does suggest that a few words--half in anger, half wracked with laughter--from a teacher with a foot in both camps may cast light on some of the issues involved...
American economists are writers of humorous fiction, as the U.S.-budget fantasies attest, but John Kenneth Galbraith's droll, mannered novels are funny on purpose. In his first, The McLandress Dimension (1963), the Harvard professor introduced a concept that measured the time -- often a matter of milliseconds -- that public figures spend thinking of matters unrelated to themselves. The new novel, his third, explores the equally valuable IRAT, or Index of Irrational Expectations, a quantification of the collective wrongheadedness of the stock market. Harvard technocrat Montgomery Marvin, known for his seminal study of refrigerator pricing, invents IRAT and becomes exceedingly rich...
...Melrose can attest, the life of a Harvardenforcer may be rosy at Bright, but bullyingtactics tend to be underappreciated at away games.Can Flomenhoft stand the heat...
...before the U.S. decided to fund the contra rebels. Never have I heard COCA question the legitimacy of a Nicaraguan government that prohibits independent polling of its citizens and has done everything it could to squash the free speech of the opposition, as the editors of La Prensa would attest...
...order to qualify as "domestic partners" in New York City, which offers bereavement leave to municipal workers, a couple must officially register their relationship with the city's personnel department, have lived together for one year and attest that they have a "close and committed personal relationship involving shared responsibilities." Thomas F. Coleman, a law professor who directs California's Family Diversity Project, proposes that live-in couples "who have assumed mutual obligation of commitment and support for each other" be allowed to apply for a "certificate of domestic partnership" that would function like a marriage certificate...