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Dombeck has tried to cut a new path for the embattled agency. He forced out managers too closely allied with logging interests and began to wean the agency of its dependence on timber receipts. He reordered employee evaluations, putting greater emphasis on how staff members protected water and soil than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ruckus In the Woods | 2/15/1999 | See Source »

He is somewhat more tolerant of other old friends. The worst he has to say about Lionel Trilling, whom he considers the most intelligent person he ever met, is that he lacked a certain political courage, taking refuge always in his favorite word, complicated. Everything was complicated, Trilling would insist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Settling Old Scores | 2/15/1999 | See Source »

The ancient Olympic games fell into disrepute and were eventually discontinued due to growing professionalism and an emphasis on entertainment, not competition, that began to undermine the spirit of the games. The root cause of the scandal surrounding the modern Olympic movement may be an inability of the Olympics--and...

Author: By Andrew S. Chang, | Title: Corruption Starts At the Top | 2/10/1999 | See Source »

In the year and a half that I've been a student here, the majority of articles and editorials in The Crimson and The Boston Globe which have featured the Harvard-Radcliffe relationship have inadequately represented many of the perspectives of this situation. Too much emphasis has been placed on...

Author: By Mary A. Piscitello, | Title: Radcliffe's Value Is More Than Monetary | 2/10/1999 | See Source »

What has become of this once pressing issue? In the 1980s homelessness was widely regarded as a national emergency, one that drew heavy media coverage and gave rise to mass demonstrations (in 1986, 5 million Americans joined hands along a 4,000-mile line across the country to raise money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Not Gone, but Forgotten? | 2/8/1999 | See Source »

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