Word: berkeley
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...better. In fact, he does better right here. Occasionally Jake drops without warning into a dream state: a wedding ceremony where he repeats a vow to love, honor and provide credit cards; a Saturday-morning vision of all the power mowers on the block coming together in a Busby Berkeley musical number. These sequences have an attacking spirit and a sheer joy in moviemaking that the rest of the enterprise desperately needs...
David Freedman, professor of statistics at the University of California at Berkeley, testified last summer to the House Subcommitee on the Census and Population that new statistical techniques are more difficult to implement in a census than it may first appear...
...disease," says Boston University President John Silber. "People who don't think they have AIDS are not going to be very interested in getting their arm punched just for the hell of it." Notes Dr. James Brown, director of student health services at the University of California, Berkeley: "I don't think doing it on one campus is going to tell you anything." The President reportedly introduced the idea of testing college students last summer at a Cabinet meeting, where it was strongly opposed...
...Hope, Days of Rage, by Todd Gitlin '63, is a thoughtful and intricate study of Sixties radical politics and culture, melding vivid personal reminiscences of that most tumultuous of decades with rigorously acute political and social analysis. The author, currently a media critic and associate sociology professor at Berkeley, was one of the early presidents of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), an organizer of the first national demonstration against the Vietnam War, and an observer or participant in many of the signature events of the decade...
Leland's original idea, developed in the mid-1970s with the help of another Berkeley professor, Mark Rubinstein, involved a complex formula by which money managers would make swift, sharp changes in the ratio of cash to stocks in their portfolios as share prices rose or fell. The plan was workable, but because it involved buying and selling large quantities of stocks, it was also relatively cumbersome and expensive...