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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Most of the time, however, Atlantic City leaders seem content with cash. Four of the past six mayors were charged with some kind of official misconduct. In July the incumbent, James Usry, and 13 other officials, including three council members, were charged with taking bribes. In a place where millions of dollars change hands every day, the mayor is accused of accepting a paltry $6,000 from an undercover agent to let electric passenger carts run along the Boardwalk. "This town is like an aging whore," says Carver. "Disrespect me, but give me something -- just give me something...
...well received in the U.S. Scientists pointed out that uncertainty and vagueness could be represented perfectly well by more traditional means, like statistics or probability theory. Some of the criticism bordered on the vituperative, and the tenets of fuzzy logic were dismissed with terms ranging from "comical" to "content- free...
...with Clare Castletown, the wife of the British Lord Castletown, was of particular importance to Holmes. Although it never advanced very far, or even seemed to tempt him with adultery, his letters to her are filled with powerful emotion. Recognizing that the letters' beauty need no explanation, Novick is content to print several pages of excerpts at the end of one chapter...
...Harvard Core Curriculum is entering its second decade this fall. Nothing will magically make its work in the way its planners envisioned. However, it could at least make itself more popular by bridging the gulf between academia and the rest of the world--not just in content but also by changing the "approaches to thinking" it purports to be all about...
Believing that the main event may be over, Fukuyama depicts whatever troubles lie ahead as little more than nuisances, devoid of ideological content and context, therefore lacking historical standing. That notion adds insult to the injuries of the masses starving in Africa and Asia, the basement dwellers of Beirut and the victims of narco-terror in Latin America. While the prospects for capitalism and democracy may look pretty good from Japan, Italy, Holland and France, where translations of Fukuyama's article will soon appear, they are less bright in places like Peru and Bangladesh -- and even Mexico and Israel...