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...adept at the histrionic demands of opera and the more intimate sentiments of lieder. He is in demand at the world's great opera houses, has made dozens of recordings and in his native Germany has had his own television show. Along with his colleague and rival Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, he has long been regarded as a leading German baritone of his generation, and possesses a more beautiful voice than Fischer-Dieskau. So why is Hermann Prey restless...
...Youville may be a saint, but it has a responsibility to its neighbors," Andrew M. Fischer, one of the neighbors who will go before the council Monday night, said Construction of the two four-story buildings which the hospital officials said are necessary to increase patient privacy and safety--would be "like putting the big hole in Harvard Square right in our front yards," Fischer said...
...Fischer also downplays suggestions of friction between the departments. "It's a complicated relationship, but there's no particular point in creating controversy where there...
Griliches counters that Harvard's efforts to lure away Dornbusch and Fischer have only been fair play. Explaining in the cant of his trade, he says. "It depends on your views of the virtues of competition." He adds that "the alternative would be to enter into a collusion agreement with MIT: If there is an opening at one place, no one at the other place will be eligible. Harvard and MIT would be monopolists deciding to divide the market. Maybe that would be to their benefit but would it benefit the profession...
Bearing out his words, both Dornbusch and Fischer describe relations between Harvard and MIT economists as cheerful and cooperative...