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...sequel to Richard Ford's highly acclaimed 1986 novel "The Sportswriter" picks up loquacious narrator-hero Frank Bascombe six years after the previous book left off. The new book, says TIME critic Paul Gray, repeats the effective formula of "The Sportswriter:" a flurry of intense activity in the present combined with Frank's ruminations on a past that still troubles him and whose meaning he would like to pin down. Unfortunately, he never does, says Gray, and in the end Frank "remains a bigger mystery to the reader than he is to himself."Previous TIME DailyCampaign...
...Crimson has a talented core of returning players, led by first team all-East selections and leading scorer Missy Ford '97 and Ana Dujmovic...
...credit, Gould at least spends some ofhis time in Cambridge. Ford Professor of SocialSciences Emeritus David Riesman '34 remarked lastyear that Logan Airport has become one of the mostimportant parts of Harvard...
...CFIA, a center for faculty research oneconomic development, arms control and studies ofunderdeveloped countries, was primarily funded bythe conservative Ford Foundation...
...gravitational center of the computer universe lies a short plane ride to the north, at the Seattle-area headquarters of Microsoft, a place Jackson repeatedly visited to report this week's cover story on the largest software manufacturer and its billionaire chairman Bill Gates. Jackson considers Gates the Henry Ford of the information age, a dominant figure both respected and feared. "The very exuberance and competitiveness that make Bill Gates a target for his enemies," says Jackson, "are also the reasons for his astonishing success...