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Gingerich is one of a rare breed of professors who take the time to sculpt their courses so that they entertain as well as instruct...
That background supported the instinct of more and more observers last week that Mengele might have found refuge in Brazil between 1961 and 1979. Even some of the most skeptical of Nazi hunters were beginning to entertain the possibility that the exhumed body might be Mengele's. Wiesenthal, who had initially said there was a 99% chance that the affair was a hoax, had lowered his estimate to 40%. "The testimony of witnesses," said the confident Tuma, "gives certainty to the fact that we are dealing with the body of Josef Mengele...
Nevertheless, the imposition of stricter limits on business entertainment deductions would almost certainly have an effect on corporate folkways. No longer would executives be able to sit down to three-star French fare without thinking of the bottom line. Charles Clotfelter, a professor of economics at Duke University, anticipates that the result will be a healthy dose of moderation. "It's still important for businesses to entertain," he says. "It always has been. But I expect to see entertaining on a much less grandiose scale." So, presumably, does Ronald Reagan...
Gingerich is one of a rare breed of professors who take the time to sculpt their courses so that they entertain as well as instruct...
...down in a glut of detail. The book's most conspicuous shortcoming is an absence of the engaging Williams voice and personality as they emerged in his chatty, scurrilous Memoirs (1975). Spoto, who did not know his subject personally, captures neither the man's whimsy nor his power to entertain, views his perversities with apparent distaste and responds with plodding, academic disapprobation to Williams' generally innocuous love of exaggeration and self-dramatizing...