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Sachs succeeds Dwight H. Perkins, Burbank professor of political economy, who is stepping down after 15 years to resume teaching and research on development in East and South-east Asia...
...plays a vital role at Harvard, both inbuilding links among different disciplines and instrengthening the University's efforts to addresscomplex problems in the larger world," Carnesalesaid. "I am extremely pleased that Jeff Sachs willbe bringing his extraordinary talents and energiesto the leadership of HIID, and I am very gratefulto Dwight Perkins for his highly successful tenureas director of this integral part of Harvard...
...proudest accomplishments-have begun to decline, as teenagers race off to find jobs instead of staying in school. On a recent visit, Singapore's Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew, a Hanoi favorite, complained that investment projects are "being held to ransom" by officials looking for payoffs. Harvard economist Dwight Perkins describes Vietnam as being in the "Twilight Zone," somewhere between a Stalinist command economy and a Western-style market economy, with only a hazy notion of how to complete the journey...
...49ers from a 35-7 half-time deficit to a 38-35 overtime victory over the New Orleans Saints. In the 1981 N.F.C. championship game, he beat Dallas 28-27 on a last-minute touchdown drive that culminated in the Catch, a 6-yd. pass to wide receiver Dwight Clark at the back of the end zone. Three times Montana would be the Super Bowl mvp. After he was traded to the Chiefs in April '93, Montana added to his legend by leading them to stirring play-off victories over Pittsburgh and Houston. Ismay, Montana (pop. 22), even changed...
...night was moonless, the kind of darkness that pilots liken to flying into a black hole. On the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Dwight D. Eisenhower, Lieut. John ("Tuba") Gadzinski inched the F-14 Tomcat forward so a deck crewman could hook it to the catapult that would hurl the fighter skyward at 260 km/h. In the Tomcat's backseat, radar-intercept officer Lieut. (j.g.) Kristin ("Rosie") Dryfuse glanced out the cockpit to another deckhand holding a lighted box that flashed "66,000 lbs.," (30 metric tons) the plane's weight. Dryfuse circled her flashlight to signal that the weight was correct...