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...homes came last May, when HTU released the results of a comprehensive energy-use survey of Harvard-owned buildings. Designed to identify inexpensive means of reducing energy waste, the survey was never formally acknowledged by Harvard. It is fairly easy to understand why HRE administrators would resent off-the-cuff tenant gripes, but it is far more difficult to explain how HRE could close its eyes to a well-researched and carefully documented study that could cut costs for both landlord and tenant...
...Marxist composer in striped pants and gold cuff links who talks about revolution while sipping Calvados and puffing unfiltered Gitanes in an elegant hotel restaurant. "Because you're a socialist, people expect you to dress in flour bags and eat garbage," says Germany's Hans Werner Henze, at 55 the leading composer of his generation. "But I say better a Communist in a Rolls-Royce than a Fascist in a tank...
...over breakfast like those he penned for the Marx Brothers, nor to determine if he poured forth in conversation the astonishing, almost Nabokovian, word-play that runs through his myriad of New Yorker stories. Perelman would certainly have proven disappointing on these counts--no one could do off the cuff what he so meticulously crafted. Instead, one would meet Perelman to find out one thing--How much of that literary schmendrick persona that appears over and over again in his stories...
...animal committee in 1957 helped write the pound bill, uses dogs for his research on hypertension, which he says afflicts between 30 40 million Americans and can lead to heart failure, renal failure and strokes. He simulates renal-vascular hypertension in dogs by means of a surgically implanted cuff that puts pressure on the renal artery...
...black tie. "It was more a benefit for me," says he. "I'd give up my career to sing the role of Fredrik Egerman in A Little Night Music." So, decked out in a tux that probably cost less than one of Wayne Newton's cuff links, Kahn valiantly warbled eleven tunes, mostly Gershwin and Cole Porter. Just to prove that he hasn't abandoned politics, the songster topped his 40-minute performance with a Night Music number that he said he wanted to dedicate to the Reagan Administration: Send in the Clowns. -By E. Graydon Carter