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Error of Judgment. How could Price Waterhouse's reading of the books differ so greatly from Pergamon's, which was audited by the respected British firm of Chalmers Impey? One reason is the failure of a Pergamon affiliate, International Learning Systems Corp., an encyclopedia company, which lost $8.5 million in 27 months-a fact that did not come to light until two months ago because the books had not been kept up to date. Pergamon is writing off the $5,000,000 it invested in International Learning; Maxwell admits that failing to provide adequate management for the venture...
...central problem is the Encyclopedia Theory of History with which the authors have tackled their subject. In their eagerness to provide the definitive account of the spring events. the authors have crammed far too many names, dates, resolutions, and background details into the story. Throughout the crowded pages, they have been too timid about summarizing peripheral facts in order to highlight important ones. Unless readers assume that trivial details at Harvard are somehow more interesting than the same minutiae elsewhere, there is no reason for the profusion of data...
...freshman year when someone said sleep with me and I did. Something happened in my mind. She came apart from her, and the one who did good work, smiled good morning at everyone, had come to, Radcliffe with a whole encyclopedia of brittle ideas, she was washed with darkness by the other one, in the pit. Gold, searing aches. But most of all (every Radcliffe girl is her father's daughter) wanting to ask. ashamed to ask, am I the same, do you still love me, am I the same...
...last time the vice president had his IQ tested, he scored 135. In psychology, according to the World Book Encyclopedia, a genius is a person with an IQ of 140 or over." the newsletter said...
That accolade to Alexander Tvardovsky was printed with official blessing in The Great Soviet Encyclopedia in 1956. But in recent years Tvar-dovsky's truth has begun to hurt. Russia's most popular poet has come under increasing attack for failing to show enough vigilance against "bourgeois ideology" in his magazine, Novy Mir (New World). Last week, after four of his top staff members were fired and replaced by men who can be relied upon to follow party dictates faithfully, Tvardovsky could no longer ignore official displeasure: he submitted his resignation as editor of Novy...