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While many of the members of the class of '92 can't wait to embark on life outside the University, four members of the class of '67 never left Harvard Yard...
...What about Harry Truman's comment after he took over as President when Roosevelt died, "I felt like the sun and the moon and the stars had all fallen on my shoulders"? As you are about to embark on this almost certain race for the White House, don't you worry at some times whether you too are worthy of bearing that weight...
Finally, Gates' request is a limited one, and it's a dismal comment on the state of academia that he has to pose it. "Equal access to the arts and the humanities, broadly reconceived, is the most important cultural project upon which we can embark." Gates simply wants equal access to the institutions which perpetuate human culture. there's no call for separatism in his writing. He doesn't give an inch to Jeffriesism, which can only "drown out critical inquiry...
...Reichmanns and their bankers prepared for their complicated pas de deux around the negotiating table, the stakes could not be higher: the world's biggest property developer was about to embark on the largest private debt restructuring in history. Banks in Canada are said to hold an estimated $2.4 billion in O&Y debt, much of it on the books of Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce and the Royal Bank of Canada...
Zora is back from the dead, and she's ready to take on her impotent fiancee, his lover and an 18-year-old homosexual production assistant, all in the courtroom of her own kitchen. So begins Zora's Kitchen, as cast and audience embark on a fantastically clever and witty journey, replete with an arsenal of frying pans, phone sex and fornication...