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This is getting out of hand. For two weeks in a row [Oct. 25; Nov. 1], you have seen fit to depict prehensile appendages-the hands of man and beast-on your illustrious cover. Does this mean that the coveted Man of the Year award might perchance be replaced by an analogous honor for "Hand of the Year"? If so, I cast my vote...
Caste System. In Plagues and Peoples McNeill, who won the 1964 National Book Award for The Rise of the West, offers a provocative medical man's view of why the world took some of the turns it did. Most writers figure that Rome succumbed to outer Goths and inner decadence. McNeill maintains that a series of epidemics-measles, smallpox, plague-so depleted the empire's population that by the middle of the 3rd century A.D. it was no longer able to resist the barbarians. Disease, rather than religion, also lay at the roots of India's caste...
...this happened last January, and because of it, Markey received the Massachusetts Bar Association's Legislator of the Year award and was praised in many editorial columns. Looking for a theme for an advertising campaign, Markey's political strategists pounced on the Judiciary Committee incident...
...IMPRESSIVE work and O'Donnell's greatest luck came with the children who played the campers. Their performances were natural, warm, restrained. Sam (Christopher Stewart), Stewart (Max Levine), and Roger (Michael Sloane) were all terrific. David M. Thomas as J.T. deserves some sort of long-distance half-pint Tony Award...
...expelled students was the son of John Quincy Adams, then Secretary of State in President Monroe's cabinet. No amount of pressure from Washington could force the College to award the delinquent a diploma...