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...dances on the shuttle Bus: The shuttle buy is my domain...
...wisdom, Seinfeld is a show about "nothing." Episodes are spun out of small, everyday trials and tribulations -- looking for a parking spot, wearing a funny-looking shirt, trying not to masturbate (last season's Emmy-winning episode The Contest, in which the characters competed to be "master of your domain"). In reality, the show is more densely textured, elaborately plotted and psychologically astute than any other comedy on TV. It is, moreover, the product of two distinct but oddly congruent comic personalities: David, 46, a dour ex-stand-up comic and writer (he appeared in ABC's failed late-night...
Harvard's vigor in this case contrasts sharply with its so-far lame response to the need for signs in another part of Harvard's domain. I am referring to the need for signs to guide the constant flow of visitors and newcomers walking to and over the broad, featureless overpass by Memorial Hall safely toward their desired destination...
Applying to college is becoming akin to declaring free agency. Ultimately, the issue of finding the most suitable school is obsolescent to a large majority of students seeking aid: The burning question is no longer which is the better school, but which school offers the "better buy." Longtime the domain of professional athletes who have achieved free-agency--the practice is to sign with whichever team makes the best offer (for the running back Rocket Ismail, this meant playing in Canada instead of the NFL)--we cannot ethically superimpose the practice on college admissions...
...railroad people, from corporate towers to the yards, seem to have sniffed the new promise. Deloyt Young, manager of the world's largest freight yard, U.P.'s Bailey Yard in North Platte, Nebraska, knows every inch of his eight-mile domain, a moving mosaic of thousands of cars and engines. It is hard by the old ranch where Buffalo Bill Cody assembled his Wild West show (complete with conquered Sioux Chief Sitting Bull) and sent it out on tour aboard U.P. trains. "I don't need an economist to tell me when things are good or bad," Young says...