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Into the meeting walks my 43-year-old friend with two Harvard degrees, partner in a well-known investment bank that, like all investment banks, is cutting back. He runs a small department that should bear much fruit in the 1990s. It specializes in financing companies related to "the environment." It's exactly the kind of investment a company shouldn't trim unless it absolutely...
Soundest Dietary Restriction The 1990 Nutrition Labeling and Education Act mandates standard definitions of such terms as light and lowfat, bans misleading claims and requires food producers to list the amount of dietary fiber and saturated fat in raw seafood, fruit and vegetables as well as on most packaged-goods labels...
Things moved very fast after that. If Gorbachev was the final policymaker, Shevardnadze was the executor of his wishes as Eastern Europe freed itself and lingering regional disputes were defused in southern Africa, Central America and Southeast Asia. Negotiations that had been stalled for years or decades , suddenly bore fruit: intermediate-range missiles had already been abolished in 1987, but a treaty mandating major reductions in conventional forces in Europe was signed last month; and the START pact cutting strategic nuclear forces is to be signed in February...
Gravely's life is equally depressing. When not living in the past, he tries to come up with a sentence to engrave into the soon-to-be-erected statue of himself. He constantly eats and drinks and forms more of an attachment to a pack of Juicy Fruit than his wife. At times, Gravely's humanity and very existence seems questionable--he is a decaying mess who spits blood and is infertile...
...Radcliffe Alumni/ae Against Apartheid urges the next president to make achieving the goals of diversity and social responsibility the highest priority of the new administration. Harvard's stature can only be enhanced by having these achievements come as the result of official University policy rather than as the bitter fruit of years of contention...