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DIED. STANLEY ELKIN, 65, darkly witty, language-obsessed novelist; of a heart attack; in St. Louis, Missouri. Author of 17 books, Elkin won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1983 for George Mills, which-in a plot typical of his absurdist bent-follows a thousand-year lineage of losers with the same name, from a misguided medieval crusader to a furniture mover in present-day St. Louis. Elkin remained a prolific writer despite suffering from multiple sclerosis...
...more than 30 years, the country has beenless than aggressive in leveling the playingfield," he said. "Our country seems bent onplaying a game with the hopes and aspirations of apeople that for more than 300 years have beenunequal participants in society...
...Langone becomes overly critical of theMedical School's scientific bent when he downplaysthe school's research efforts. He especiallycriticizes the school's Health Sciences-Technologyprogram (HST), a research-intensive curriculumdesigned for students seeking "careers at theinterface of science and engineering withmedicine...
...spending and get our fiscal house in order; we intend to carry out the mandate," Rep. Robert S. Walker (R-Pa.). chair of the House Science Committee, said in a speech last month at an aeronautics conference. "Contrary to what the Administration is saying, we are not hell-bent on destroying the science and technology base of this country...
...intellectual coherence. Reactionary liberalism has many large constituencies, and its program, for all its passivity, does not lack for logic. Indeed, Clinton's transformation from apostle of change to defender of the faith offers the country an unusually clear ideological choice between two apparent oxymorons: a "revolutionary" conservatism bent on dismantling the great edifice of the New Deal and Great Society and a reactionary liberalism bent on preserving...