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...indeed, it borders on the libelous. Professor Anderson would do well to reflect further on the fairness of his committee's procedures as well as on the accuracy of its findings. Casting himself in the role of Lord High Executioner may add a Gilbert and Sullivan savor to a "gargantuan report" but does little to alleviate the shocking delays that have plagued Dr. Hartman's appeal to date. Francois C.D. Vigier Professor of City Planning and Urban Design
...born in relative poverty, the son of an unassuming parson who died when the boy was seven. He was thereupon adopted by his childless uncle Thomas, a Gargantuan export-import trader (tea, codfish, whale oil) who had built the first mansion on Beacon hill. Uncle Thomas put young Hancock through Harvard, class of '54, and then eight years in the counting room of the House of Hancock. When Thomas Hancock died, he left his 27-year-old nephew a fortune of ?80,000, the largest in New England...
...movie called Games that is the sophisticated story of a triangular bisexual love affair. A splashy sidelight of the industry is movie-poster art. In Bangkok, block-long billboards picturing grotesque snake-entwined monsters hovering over eviscerated women may cost $40,000 and take 36 artists to paint. These gargantuan murals, which used to be thrown away, are suddenly being bought up by European museums. Som-boonsuk Niyomsiri, one of Bangkok's foremost poster painters, has gone on to become Thailand's biggest film producer−under the name of Piak Poster. His latest movie, American Surplus, deals...
...imply special qualities of excellence and achievement. Harvard, they feel, has a special obligation--indeed, a mission--to uphold standards. Doubtless it is good for morale that so many Harvard professors share this notion of Cantabridgian superiority, but the delusion can be harmful if it leads them to impose gargantuan assign ments upon our students. Fortunately Harvard professors who have taught elsewhere can remind their parochial colleagues that Harvard undergraduates are practically in-distinguishable, in ability and in accomplishments, from those at a dozen other institutions and that a Harvard degree is simply one of many reputable undergraduate degrees that...
...result, the current rally, more than any before, has been dominated by institutions. That explains not only the gargantuan volume but also the suddenness of the price runup. An institutional market tends to be more volatile than one in which individuals do a large share of the trading. Reason: individuals tend to hold their stocks longer. Institutional managers, with nothing to do but watch the tape, trade frequently, knowing that the magnitude of their transactions will enable them to make money on price movements-25? a share, say-that are too small to mean anything to the private investor...