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...were destined to be together even before they arrived at Harvard. They both lived in Grays West, the two were the only students their first year to have Dean of the College Archie C. Epps III for an academic advisor, and both were singers--he in the Glee Club, she in the Radcliffe Choral Society. Now the two are on the Undergraduate Council together...
...Kremlin's new approach is a far cry from the "partnership" with the U.S. that Gorbachev proclaimed during the heady days of 1989, when he pulled Soviet troops out of Afghanistan and liberated Eastern Europe. Some conservatives have concluded, with as much glee as alarm, that Gorbachev is returning to the bad old days of the cold war. That characterization is not just simplistic -- it misses the irony of what is happening. The emerging U.S.-Soviet interplay is in some respects a throwback to the even older days of razzle-dazzle realpolitik, before the era of a global, Manichaean struggle...
...course, one man's glut is another man's glee. Office renters everywhere are demanding and getting deep discounts, huge renovation allowances and better services. In Manhattan, where the rate of empties is 14%, some renters receive a full year rent-free plus a one-time allowance of $60 to $100 per sq. ft. for improvements. In Boston (16%), one of the city's largest law firms, Hale and Dorr, has been threatening for months to move to new quarters. Last week the nervous landlord persuaded the company to stay put at $20 per sq. ft. -- 40% less than...
...emulating Abbot Joachim's egotistic heresy: falsely assuming that the age in which they live is unique. The other mistake -- an undertone in some of the Armageddon literature but overt in much of the computerized End Days babbling -- is to interpret events in the gulf with eschatological glee, as if the real message were "Hey, fellas, our troubles are almost over." No one has the right to that assumption. History unfurls as God's secret, wrote the French novelist Leon Bloy. But it is also man's destiny, from which there is no abdication...
During the year, the symbolic targets of the '80s were shot down one by one: Donald Trump, Leona Helmsley, Imelda Marcos, Manuel Noriega, Michael Milken. Each comeuppance inspired an uneasy mix of glee and fear -- uneasy because we had so lately embraced the values of those whose falls we were cheering...