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HARVARD'S APPROACH to faculty salaries is as different from Texas A&M's as clam chowder and chili. The vicissitudes of the university marketplace, so carefully weighed at the Texas institution, are all but ignored at Harvard, officials say. "Our differentials between salaries in the sciences and humanities are smaller than they are at almost any other university in the country." Dean of the Faculty Henry Rosovsky has boasted. "This has an important impact on the morale of the entire Faculty: we're all engaged in a common intellectual enterprise...

Author: By Michael W. Miller, | Title: Stargazing | 11/16/1982 | See Source »

...page by page, item by item, lest you miss the quintessential Christmas gift for Aunt Susie-or yourself. Big and small, plain and fancy, the catalogues skimmed randomly seem like an incantatory litany of affluence: bulletproof vests and see-through lingerie, blackout candles and Waterford chandeliers, buffalo steaks, Texas chili and Italian cheese, Taos Indian drums, underwater cameras, solid-fuel rockets, night-vision goggles, woks, socks, building blocks, coffee roasters, toasters, coasters, cashmere sweaters, G strings, food processors, wine vinegar, wine racks and wine-flavored toothpaste, pineapple peelers, electronic potato parers, pear trees, frozen pheasants, silver stirrups, golden everything, robot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Catalogue Cornucopia | 11/8/1982 | See Source »

TEXAS SHOOTOUT. Three-alarm chili and the gubernatorial race between Texas Republican Incumbent William Clements, 65, and State Attorney General Mark White, 42, have a lot in common. This heated contest is a referendum not on Ronald Reagan but on Bill Clements, whose blunt language and pro-business positions have antagonized many low-income voters. White, the underfunded underdog, began to edge up after three televised debates gave him an opportunity to put Clements on the defensive. White has attacked Clements' mudslinging leak of a driving-under-the-influence charge when White was a law student, and accused...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: For Governor: Texans William Clements and Mark White | 11/1/1982 | See Source »

Campaign workers for New Mexico's First District incumbent, Republican Manuel Lujan Jr., are fond of saying that he is "as New Mexican as green chili." They come honestly by the claim. Lujan boasts ancestors in the state as far back as A.D. 1540. But he is also an anomaly: a Republican Hispanic who has won seven terms in a district where Democrats have a 2-to-1 registration advantage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The House: In the Minority | 10/18/1982 | See Source »

...friend stared at me for a few seconds and then turned and left, headed for a restaurant just over the border that specialized in chili and warm, dry air. I should have gone, too, because nobody on the Harvard side could have loved football enough to bear through the rest of the game...

Author: By Michael Bass, | Title: Love and Hate | 10/16/1982 | See Source »

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