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...Harvard honorees are Ritu Sonia Batra '93 of Los Angeles; Matthew B. Boyle '93 of Shaker Heights, Ohio; Alexander M. Johnston '93 of Amherst, Mass.; Sarah L. Levine '93 of Brookline, Mass.; Ayelet K. Margalioth '93 of Montreal, Canada; and Andre C. Namphy '93 of Palo Alto, Calif...
...Batra says that in California, which led the nation in number of applicants, the key to winning was friendliness and a sense of humor. "People with the cut-throat attitude didn't make it through," said the history of science concentrator...
There's no question the Reagan-Bush era has been great for high-income guys like me. But if there's anything to the Batra thesis, a Clinton win may come just in time -- not for any massive redistribution of wealth, but to tip the playing field ever so slightly away from the wealthy and back toward everyone else...
...impending economic disaster, written by a Chinese. At most chain bookstores, the personnel might be equally baffled. But the staffer at Politics & Prose thinks for a moment, and then, from among the shop's 20,000 titles, quickly produces a copy of The Great Depression of 1990 by Ravi Batra -- not a Chinese, to be sure, but the right book nonetheless. Sold...
...NEVER PROMISED YOU A ROSE GARDEN. Quite the opposite, but everything's coming up profits anyway for doomsayer Ravi Batra, 45, the economics professor at Southern Methodist University who wrote The Great Depression of 1990. First published by a small press in 1985 and then by Simon & Schuster in June 1987, the book sold more than 500,000 copies in hard cover. His promptly produced sequel, Surviving the Great Depression of 1990, was released last month with a first printing...