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...seven-member top governing board, included Robert G. Stone Jr. ’45 among its members. Stone retired from the Corporation last spring; he remains a director of Harvard Management Company, Harvard’s investment arm. Stone is a fellow Texas oil executive and a contributor to Bush-family political campaigns. Such close ties between Harvard and Harken offer a possible explanation for Harvard’s involvement with the ailing company, raising the troubling possibility of cronyism driving Harvard’s investments...
...results will look something like "The Rehnquist Court: Judicial Activism on the Right," edited by Herman Schwartz (Hill & Wang; November). Kirkus calls the book a "full-bore, peppery assault on the current Supreme Court...That the court put George W. Bush into the White House is, in these contributors' estimation, but one of its manifold sins, though it's a big one...Contributor address the Court's perceived failings, born of the very judicial activism that so many conservatives denounce...Expect worse, the authors warn, should Bush get a shot at appointing another justice. Those inclined to think that...
WORST WAY TO FINALLY BE CREDITED AS A MAJOR CONTRIBUTOR ON A CHAMPIONSHIP TEAM...
...turned into a successful stage play. Last year the book finally appeared in Germany, and this year it was reissued in Britain. And what of Kressmann Taylor? As explained in an afterword by her son Charles, she was born Kathrine Kressmann in Portland, Oregon, a wife, mother and contributor to small U.S. magazines. With Address Unknown, she enjoyed brief notoriety as "the woman who jolted America," then lived quietly as a college professor in Gettysburgh, Pennsylvania. Rediscovered after Address Unknown was reissued, Taylor spent a happy year signing copies and giving interviews until her death...
Alas, Sleeper was and is a fantasy. The indictment of excessive amounts of saturated fat--the kind found in steaks and butter--as a major contributor to heart disease and stroke has not changed and seems unlikely to do so. A formidable lineup of experts holds to the low-fat approach, none more tenaciously than Dr. Dean Ornish, whose regimen prescribes no more than 10% of daily calories from fat. With the latest resurgence of the Atkins program, the clash of the two theories is sharper than ever--low fat vs. low carbs, Ornish vs. Atkins. But here is what...