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...staff to Republican President Gerald Ford, and Laffer, who was teaching at the University of Chicago's business school after a stint in the Nixon White House. In trying to explain to Cheney why a tax hike mooted by the President might not be such a great idea, Laffer drew a chart on a napkin that showed government revenues increasing as the tax rate moved up from 0% but then turning around and heading back toward zero as it neared...
Bell, 37, is guilty of none of the negatives. He is largely apolitical, thinks that only those with gay friends are positioned to judge homosexuality--and he tinkers marvelously. At 28, he founded a megachurch that threw out the conventional sermon-and-worship service and instantly drew thousands of attendees. He has sold hundreds of thousands of books with titles like Velvet Elvis and Sex God that find the sacred in the profane. And he has created a form of video message he calls Nooma (phonetic Greek for spirit or breath) that may make him to YouTube what Graham...
...writer and Kentucky native Elizabeth Hardwick was born in the wrong region for someone who aspired to be a "New York Jewish intellectual." So she moved north and got a Ph.D. at Columbia. In 1945 she drew comparisons to Eudora Welty with her first novel, The Ghostly Lover. After writing for the Partisan Review, though, Hardwick became better known as a critic, co-founding the highbrow New York Review of Books in 1964 and producing such collections as Seduction and Betrayal, now standard reading for the study of women in fiction. Hardwick...
...with precisely this mentality that 13 members of that volatile Harvard Class of 1967 wrote to University President Drew G. Faust last week, citing a climate of indifference at the College and requesting the establishment of a task force to combat a climate of “political apathy and careerism.” While we current undergraduates—who here stand accused of callous ambition—respect the letter’s aims, we disagree with its proposed solution and doubt whether there is a problem...
...loss across the Charles River.Harvard will have the opportunity to get back to its winning ways tomorrow night in Bethlehem, Pa., when the Crimson travel to take on Lehigh. Last year at Lavietes Pavilion, Harvard knocked off the Mountain Hawks, 83-75, getting 18 from point guard Drew Housman. Housman, the Crimson’s leading scorer this year, will look to make a similar offensive contribution, while having the task of holding down Lehigh leading scorer, sophomore Marquis Hall.—KEVIN C. REYESWhen the Harvard women’s basketball team has four players in double figures...