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Whatever Lippmann's gaffes, they were but a small fraction of the 10 million words he committed to print. His column was ultimately syndicated in more than 200 papers; it brought him wealth, honors and worldwide fame. His lean, dignified presence was another of Washington's monuments. An invitation to the home he and his vivacious wife Helen had on Woodley Road, near the National Cathedral, was a command performance (Mrs. Lippmann died in February). Lippmann-called "the autocrat of the dinner table" by awed guests-would lead evening companions through Socratic questions on an encyclopedic range...
Frimbo, at his polemic best, reasons that for a fraction of the money...
Harvard sold 320 acres of prime Martha's Vineyard land to a Boston development company last year at a fraction of its market value, angering alumni and island residents...
Physicists have already discovered some 200 elementary particles, usually by smashing apart nuclei of atoms in huge accelerators. Most of the particles live for only a tiny fraction of a second before they decay into more stable atomic components Like electrons. Until now, all of these particles have occupied predictable places in what physicists jocularly call their subnuclear "zoo." The puzzling new discovery is a total misfit...
...school's instructors are members of the faculties of seven local universities, with about half from Harvard, including many full professors. Extension students can attend many courses identical to those offered to undergraduates at Harvard or MIT or Boston University and pay only a fraction of the price, as tuition per semester course ranges from...