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...troubling account of the climb (Villard; 293 pages; $24.95), is no chronicle of triumph. He was in ragged physical shape. A wracking cough had torn loose chest cartilage; his body had burned away 20 lbs. of muscle mass; he was running out of bottled oxygen. But the deadliest element of his situation was one he barely noticed: innocent-looking clouds rising from valleys to the south. They were the tops of thunderheads, carrying a violent spring storm that would kill 11 climbers before it blew itself...
...desert plain of Mina outside Mecca. The incident is another in a series of embarrassments for a Saudi government that has increasingly staked its legitimacy on its role as the guardian of the Holy Places. "King Fahd now carries the title 'Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques,' an important element of legitimacy, given that the Saud family were basically conquerors of the tribes of the Arabian peninsula and have never permitted an election," notes TIME's Scott MacLeod. "King Fahd has spent billions on vast and opulent expansion projects in Mecca and sister city Medina, partly out of vanity...
...challenge is to take that image and convert it into more volume units. Oldsmobile needs to reposition itself to sophisticated, refined midsize-car buyers who will be new purchasers to GM. Buick's great focus will remain on premium American road cars, but it needs to recapture that traditional element from a younger customer base. Cadillac really needs to make its breakthrough as a global player. Saturn's image is just perfect. All they need to do is execute product growth." Whew! Interpretation: GM needs to sell a ton of cars...
...then arbitrariness is the show's only distinguishing element. In the first episode, dwarfs appear as waiters at a swank hotel for no explicable reason. In some ways, Gun resembles a camp version of Altman's Short Cuts. Like that film, it offers vignettes of the striving and the desperate. With Gun, though, viewers are left with characters like Lilly (Rosanna Arquette), a lonely housewife prone to doing suggestive aerobics alone in her living room and whining as though she's ingested too much Slim-Fast. Chuck Norris would at least know enough to ease the pain with a chili...
...urge alumni to give--first, to the substantive part of a Harvard student's career, by endowing chairs and reducing section sizes, and second, to the more intangible element of our University experience, by helping to rebuild the tower. Because a Harvard education often begins when a student looks up from studying in one building to muse on the ornament and scale of another. Then, on the brink of the next century, Harvard can boast it has restored, finally and completely, a building from the last century. As Bunting wrote in his 1985 history, "When the tower roof, clock...