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FRONT-RUNNERS often have a hard time recognizing that they are not the centers of the universe. This is what helped doom Gary Hart's campaign when he invited the press to follow him around to see if he was up to any hanky-panky. And it's what helped do in Michael S. Dukakis when he rolled his eyes and ignored his staff's advice to counter the Willie Horton ad directly...
...there is a problem with Outerbridge Reach, it is not that some of its conclusions appear improbable but that its structure seems a tad too deterministic. Stone, at his highest pitch, is a poet of doom; his characters must confront nothing less than the implacable pattern that fate has handed them. When they think they are most in control, changing the direction of their lives, they are actually exposing themselves to ruin. To be safe is contemptible, to dare disastrous. That Stone makes exciting fiction out of this depressing scenario is the hallmark of his mastery...
Still, many educators believe that the contraction of the 1990s need not spell doom for U.S. universities. If major institutions concentrate on what they do best and stop trying to be all things to all students, they may actually emerge stronger than ever. "What we are witnessing is the death of the 19th century research university," says David Scott Kastan, chairman of Columbia's department of English and comparative literature. Such institutions are enormously inefficient, but there are good ways and bad ways to prune them. "There's the democracy-of-pain option," he explains, "whereby you cut across...
Still, amid predictions of gloom and doom at other colleges, Harvard set a new record last spring by awarding $29.5 million in grants and $53 million in total financial aid, according to Miller...
...tried to buck up their flagging spirits the day before his television address with an unsentimental farewell chat in the Kremlin office, assuring them that they need not worry about the future. As a participant put it, "The moment anyone was tempted to give way to gloom and doom, he just would not allow it." But those who could read Gorbachev's lexicon of looks saw something more going on last week behind the remarkable show of self-control. The brilliant sparkle in his eyes that used to keep visitors riveted in place seemed to flicker out. Confided a close...