Word: choses
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Both Harvard Magazineand my ballot arrived on the same day. They're a little less ham-fisted this year, but it's the same attempt at maipulatin what purports to be a democratic election process. And just to play it safe, the University again chose as a "neutral vote-counter" its own CPA firm, Coopers & Lybrand...
Since 1900 the names Akron and Firestone have gone together like a matched set of steel-belted radials. Back then, Harvey Firestone chose the Ohio city as home for what is now the nation's No. 2 tiremaker. But Firestone Chairman John Nevin is treading on tradition with his plan to move the head office to Chicago later this year. Nevin's explanation: the Windy City is a financial, retailing and transportation hub. It is also near Winnetka, Ill., where Nevin's family lives in a house he visits monthly...
...numbers of English-speaking South Africans, who normally are more liberal on racial issues than the Afrikaners, jumped this time from the Progressives to the National Party. Concluded an editorial in the Johannesburg newspaper Business Day: "English voters, sacrificing at last the role of keepers of a liberal flame, chose to liquidate themselves as an identifiable political force...
...MOST disturbing thing about the Hart scandal is not that Americans want a monogamous president or that the Miami Herald chose to print its story. Instead it is this country's preoccupation with the details of Hart's personal life, details that go way beyond the particulars of the current scandal. The press has been eager to chronicle Hart's rate of intercourse since he hit puberty, and the American public has lapped up each tidbit of gossip with unyielding fervor...
Still, we must hear the testimonies, from the victims, and from Klaus Barbie himself. For in the end they may help us to understand the deeper motivations of a Nazi killer who chose to make himself the enemy of those children and who even now thinks of himself as innocent. Was he normal, like Eichmann? Human, perhaps...