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The lobby of Atlanta's Peachtree Plaza Hotel featured a curious display last week: a large butter sculpture of a donkey. The perishable sculpture, as well as complimentary airline tickets and an elaborate reception at the Atlanta Historical Society, was intended to show the visiting Democratic National Policy Commission what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Politics: Let's Have a Party | 5/12/1986 | See Source »

The "politicians" in both the Administration and Congress then joined in an endless series of deals and compromises that drastically watered down even the inadequate spending cuts Stockman was able to propose. Worse, they began a bidding war that turned the later tax cut into a gargantuan giveaway of federal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gossipy Lament | 5/12/1986 | See Source »

First, alumni should elect these three candidates because they are more than merely symbolic victims of Bok's monumental mishandling of the election. For the first time in the history of the Board, candidates--Plotz, Simmons and Seidman--have placed themselves on the ballot by petition. They are the first...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Blood Now | 4/28/1986 | See Source »

The business HMC generates for Wall Street firms is quite different from their dealings with most other universities, who leave their entire endowments to the brokers' bidding. Last year HMC spent about $2 million on investment-related services, but if instead of handling its own management decisions Harvard put the...

Author: By Laurie M. Grossman, | Title: MANAGING HARVARD'S MONEY | 4/25/1986 | See Source »

A bureaucratic battle over missile throw-weights would not seem to be the stuff of which best sellers are made. But when the author is Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard Perle, the Administration's outspoken hawk, some publishers are willing to take a chance. Perle wants to write a novel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bureaucrats: To the Highest Bidder, a Perle | 4/21/1986 | See Source »

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