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Director of the Cambridge-based National Bureau of Economic Research(NBER)--the official monitor of the U.S. business cycle--Feldstein said "Cambridge is where I belong" and added that he did not want to interrupt his teaching and research at Harvard, where he has been a full professor since 1969. He did not rule out a part-time association with the Reagan White House...
...dollars would be taken out of their anticipated coal-mining profits. That was the gimmick that gave the investors a five-for-one write-off. Those profits never materialized. One excellent reason: though Osserman and his colleagues held surface rights, the coal underneath all but 400 acres happened to belong to the U.S. Government...
...best known to modern readers for his limericks and nonsense verse. But contemporaries knew another side of the man. Lear devoted his early career to producing detailed paintings of birds, and his pictures, collected by Susan Hyman in Edward Lear's Birds (Morrow; 96 pages; $37.95), belong on the same shelf with Audubon's. The line drawings and sketches that accompany them shed new light on the man himself. Many artists have used birds to lampoon their fellow men. The owlish Lear used them to caricature himself...
...rising energy costs and reduced energy supplies. But when an institution like Harvard gets involved in designing and financing its own energy plant, it invites more troble than it avoids. If institutions learn from the MATEP case, they will think hard before entering businesses where they probably don't belong. If they do go ahead with similar projects, they should plan in advance to meet community needs as well as their...
John Paul did not yield much on basic is sues. But his conservative line on Catholic doctrine was balanced by disarming messages to West Germany's Jews and to Muslim immigrant workers ("You belong also to a grand line of pilgrims who from the time of Abraham have always sought to find the true God"). Most notable was his conciliatory approach to Protestants...