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...Professor of History William E. Gienapp is fond of saying in his "History 1653: Baseball and American Society" lectures, organized baseball will go out of its way to resist change...
...really. That sugary last sentence, conjuring a toy town in a glass paperweight, doesn't describe Northampton or, fortunately, Kidder's fond but unsentimental book. The author's great gift, in fact, is for looking at his subjects straight on. He did this impressively in The Soul of a New Machine (1981), about the development of a supermini-computer, and in House (1985), about the jostling interchanges among architect, builders and buyers of a private home...
...short, she charmed audiences with her unvarnished manner. Clearly, she had a similar effect on her subjects--a group of now single senior citizens living on Manhattan's Lower East Side--who speak with touching candor here about love and loss in the years when middle age is a fond memory. Ibi never patronizes these men and women; she just allows them to wish--and be wistful...
Secretary of Education Richard Riley is fond of saying, "Better education is everybody's business." In Plymouth, Mich., they take that slogan to heart. District administrators are considering auctioning off school names to the highest-bidding corporation. No takers yet, but it could be the ultimate product placement: imagine your kid one day graduating from McDonald's Middle School and heading off to Coke High...
Forbes is fond of saying that his plan would allow Americans to file their taxes on a postcard...