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Duke University Professor Peter H. Wood '64 and congressional committee counsel M. Washington ran on a pro-divestment slate and captured two of the six seats up for grabs. Two of the other winning candidates nominated by the University, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Frances FitzGerald '62 and former MIT President Jerome B. '37, have spoken out in favor of divestment publicly, while another elected Board member, Presidential candidate and U.S. Senator Albert Gore, Jr. '69 (D-Tenn.) has vocally supported sanctions against South Africa...
...committee, which includes Management Trainer Karol Rose and Account Manager Joan Dauria, agreed that a day-care facility at Time Inc.'s Rockefeller Center headquarters was impossible. "Commuting in New York is difficult at best, but especially when you have an infant or young child," explains Rose, co-author of the book The Employer's Guide to Child Care (Praeger). "And we have people who work unusual schedules, including weekends and nights." Adds Dauria: "We needed to be more flexible, letting parents make their own choice." The trio looked for a firm that would provide information for parental decision making...
...proposal, ghostwritten by Novelist Les Whitten, portrayed the plucky heroine rebuffing Nelson Rockefeller when he surprised her in the shower "wearing nothing more than a puckish smile" and backing out of a bedroom encounter with Robert Kennedy. When the predictable furor erupted, Braden claimed she was an author wronged: her literary agent submitted the proposal without her final approval. "Of course, Joan approved it," says Braden's agent. "She's just getting cold feet." Braden does not deny the incidents in the manuscript. But they may be blue-penciled from a presumably tamer version she is planning with her husband...
...last week to hammer out an agreement that would limit man-made damage to the atmosphere's protective ozone layer. As they deliberated, the British journal Nature published a study offering the strongest evidence so far that man-made compounds called chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) are the culprits. Crofton Farmer, principal author of the study and an atmospheric physicist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., reported that data gathered last year in the Antarctic are "entirely consistent" with the premise that CFCs -- used in refrigeration devices and as ingredients in plastic foams -- are destroying the ozone. "The evidence...
...McEwan's unerring prose and godly powers of awareness have made him one of the best of Britain's youngish novelists, a distinguished group that includes Martin Amis, A.N. Wilson and Julian Barnes. But the 39-year-old author of In Between the Sheets, The Cement Garden and First Love, Last Rites offers something extra, what might be called the McEwan effect. It is the giddy sense that given sufficient time and megabytes, an experience could be parsed into an infinite number of verbal and emotional moments...