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...Haven. The very words make you cringe. But despite what appears to be a putrid cesspool surrounding our Eli brethren, they (Yalies), as well as our counterparts at a host of other elite institutions, seem to have something we lack. According to a confidential memo recently leaked to the Boston Globe, administrators are aware of the unsettling buzz: Harvard students are less satisfied with their undergraduate experience than students at other top-tier colleges...
...Warhol's death in February deprived the scene of its presiding elder, the white-wigged spirit of affectless salesmanship. The collapse of the stock market eight months later gradually squeezed off buyers. By the following August, Basquiat was dead as well. How will the future regard him and his brethren? "Dying young is the easy way out," says Longo. "It's much harder to keep your edge and keep it going." It pays to keep in mind something Zhou Enlai once said. On the bicentennial of the French Revolution, someone asked the erstwhile Chinese Communist Party leader what he thought...
...plight of the world's poorest. But I was saddened even more by the stinginess and lack of empathy that the U.S. has continually shown. For all the talk about Christian values, the U.S. has failed dismally to respond to the desperate needs of the poorest of Christ's brethren by being the most tightfisted among the rich donor nations. What an absolute shame! Cheers Echevarria-Leary Albany, California...
...plight of the world's poorest. But I was saddened even more by the stinginess and lack of empathy that the U.S. has continually shown. For all the talk about Christian values, the U.S. has failed dismally to respond to the desperate needs of the poorest of Christ's brethren by being the most tightfisted among the rich donor nations. What an absolute shame...
...event, it would roil a very profitable business. And so last week Disney broke ranks with its media brethren and backed FCC regulation of cable--as an alternative to Congress imposing à la carte offerings. (Disney's cable holdings include tamer channels like ABC Family and The Disney Channel, but its ESPN often lets profanities fly.) Some broadcast executives, meanwhile, have called for decency control over cable so that they could better compete with cable channels. The greatest hope for those who want to extend the state's power over media may be in the fact that most executives would...