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...choice for Pamela Harriman. (In fact, White House counsel Lloyd Cutler signed on as her adviser after the suit was filed.) President Clinton once called her "the first lady of the Democratic Party." Indeed, her house and her parties were a haven for Democratic loyalists during the Reagan-Bush epoch. Over the years, she raised more than $12 million for Democratic candidates. Clifford, 87, whose name was muddied by the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (B.C.C.I.) scandal, denies any wrongdoing or mismanagement. "Mrs. Harriman didn't profit one dime," says Clifford. "I didn't either, and neither did Paul...
...understand the overall pattern. Over the past million years or so, the planet has swung between ice ages lasting on the order of 100,000 years and interglacial periods of about 10,000. During each phase, the climate is pretty steady. It's the stability of the current interglacial epoch, which began 10,000 years ago, that made the invention of agriculture, and thus the rise of civilization, possible...
...ominous sign: normal temperatures during the last interglacial epoch were about 4 degreesF warmer than they are this time around, and levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere were significantly higher. As humans pump more and more CO2 into the air and temperatures rise, the planet will approach the state it was in back then. And if those conditions tend to be inherently unstable -- an idea scientists consider plausible -- people may someday look back on the early 1990s as an idyllic time when the weather was benign...
Some students "accelerated," and graduated in 1942. By senior year, Radcliffe began having classes in the Yard with the Harvard students. This was an epoch event, bound to change the college as we knew it. It didn't seem so strange to me, as I had gone to co-ed schools all my life...
...That epoch has passed. America has entered the age of the contingent or temporary worker, of the consultant and subcontractor, of the just-in-time work force -- fluid, flexible, disposable. This is the future. Its message is this: You are on your own. For good (sometimes) and ill (often), the workers of the future will constantly have to sell their skills, invent new relationships with employers who must, themselves, change and adapt constantly in order to survive in a ruthless global market...