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...this year...The Crimson has given up no points in the fourth quarter this year...Harvard has not scored in the first quarter this year...The three points allowed last Saturday were the least since a 28-0 shutout of Penn in 1983...Senior kicker Rob Steinberg had a career-long 43-yd. field goal last weekend and a career-high 11 punts. Steinberg is now tied for 10th on the all-time Harvard kick scoring list with 52 points...
Schreyer, who is known for being decisive, will need to be. The company has been rocked by bad ventures. Last year Merrill Lynch spent $88 million to satisfy customers to whom it had sold annuities issued by Baldwin-United, which later went bankrupt. A career-long employee whose father was a Merrill Lynch broker in Williamsport, Pa., Schreyer recently led an extensive study of the company's problems. Dubbed SWAT, for Schreyer Working Team, the group found the firm had tried to serve too many different types of customers...
Selection committee officials made plain that the Nobel deliberations took no notice of recent attacks on Reaganomics by Tobin, a longtime opponent of the monetarist school of Milton Friedman, who received the Nobel Prize in 1976. Rather, they said, the $181,818 prize was awarded for Tobin's career-long academic contributions to economic science. Chief among these is Tobin's belief that money (cash and bank deposits) should not be sharply distinguished by economists from other financial and physical assets. Instead, Tobin views money as only one part of "a continuous spectrum of assets" that...
Blake Edwards is a lucky s.o.b. He is finally rich enough to support his career-long addiction to anger. The riches come from his Pink Panther films and "10. "The anger reached nearly self-destructive heights in the early '70s when, after making a string of hits (Breakfast at Tiffany's, Days of Wine and Roses, A Shot in the Dark), he suffered an equal number of flops (Darling Lili, Wild Rovers, The Carey Treatment). These pictures, he insists, were sabotaged from conception to cutting room by studio production chiefs: Robert Evans, of Paramount, where Lili was made...
...favorite historical figure is Napoleon. He often quotes a phrase he attributes to the Emperor: "On s'engage et puis on voit" (roughly, "You act and then you see"). A less favored and not yet historical figure in Brzezinski's pantheon is Henry Kissinger; it has been a career-long ambition of Brzezinski to outshine Kissinger. He is still annoyed that when both were teaching at Harvard, Kissinger was granted tenure and he was not. Princeton Professor Richard Falk recalls a dinner held by journalists toward the end of the Ford Administration at which someone showed up wearing a rubber...