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Chuck Daly vacated the coaching helm of Penn to join Billy Cunningham and the Philadelphia 76ers and has been succeeded by Bob Weihauer, who will be assisted by former Quaker standout Ron Haigler. Penn was second in the Ivies last year going 18-8 overall. The greatest boon Weihauer will receive is 6-ft., 6-in. senior Kevin McDonald, the premiere player of the Ivies who averaged 21.2 a game last year...
Shadow Box has much the same spirit. And with its month-before-Christmas publication date, it will be a boon to the gift wrap industry. Yet in many ways Plimpton is writing for a narrower audience in Shadow Box. The usual sports figures vie for attention with literary and journalistic personalities. Readers looking for another Paper Lion may be stymied by Plimpton's pages on the death fantasies of contemporary literatteurs and the last words of their historical counterparts. Plimpton seems to be aiming at a readership more cultivated, perhaps, than the TV audience Paper Lion hit; readers...
...surprise boon for multinational companies, Treasury also proposed to continue allowing subsidiaries of American corporations to defer paying U.S. taxes on profits made abroad until those profits are remitted to the U.S. as dividends. Carter had been widely expected to recommend taxing overseas profits as soon as they are earned-and he may yet reject Treasury's proposal...
...years of academic achievement. This is true not only for college but for graduate and professional school admissions as well. The examination system may be a convenience to admissions officers who are fundamentally too lazy to devise means to assess candidates on individual merit; and it is doubtless a boon to the test authors, evaluators and proctors who regularly enjoy its moonlighting income. But it has surely demeaned education and caused widespread cynicism among students. Why indeed should pupils learn to write when the key to success is found in filling in pencil lines, rather than composing anything of originality...
...proliferating questions about the project now make it appear to be more of a boondoggle than a boon to the community. Although much damage to the community has already been done by the excavation of a city block, still more serious damage, in the form of noise and air pollution, could result from the plant's operation. If the BRA really has the community's interest in mind, it should reject the plans, and Harvard should consider an alternative use for the enormous hole it has dug in Mission Hill...