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...Books that "Solar energy attracts people with an indifferent commitment to personal hygience and a strong commitment to organic foods," the comment transcended mere economic analysis. Likewise, when, in his memoirs, he laments the loss of financial eminence of his colleagues-- "Harvard professors (now) disappear at night into the distant Boston outskirts, there to do engage in the suburban middle-class struggle with teen-age delinquency and crabgrass"--it explains more than the changed living arrangements of the Harvard faculty...
...program is not so much that it will precipitate disaster; it is rather that the whole concept of nationalization and Keynesian government intervention seems to belong to an outmoded 1960s-style of economic tinkering that has failed wherever it has been tried. Mitterrand seems to be marching to a distant and offbeat drummer and in the wrong direction. "This [nationalization] project," writes Historian Raymond Aron, "bears witness to the Socialist Party's archaic ideas." Says a prominent French banker: "The French don't do anything like other people. At the moment when all the great countries...
...Shattering the course record was a thrill. We didn't make any mistakes and rowed well--any other year we would have won with that time." cox Greg Soghikian said yesterday. Harvard finished in 5:53.2. only one second behind Princeton. with Yale a distant third in 6:01.5 and the other three boats somewhere below the horizon...
...Messiah, which has since sold more than 2.2 million copies in hard-cover and paperback. Seven years later came Children of Dune, which has also topped the 2 mil lion mark. Now Herbert has turned the trilogy into a tetralogy with God Emperor of Dune, a fourth visit to distant Arrakis that is every bit as fascinating as the other three-and every bit as timely...
...could have been the still-distant Leonard-Hearns title fight...