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...Levitt and about 35 other students, Harvard's special concentrations option is a godsend. It allows them the freedom to craft a field of study outside the Faculty's 41 concentrations, with their rigid requirements and narrow specialties...
...steady winner on Twenty- One. The trouble was that white-bread America couldn't identify with him. Enter Van Doren (played a little too stiffly by Ralph Fiennes), trying to pick up a few dollars to supplement his instructor's pay at Columbia University. He was a godsend. Not just any old Wasp, but the scion of arguably the nation's most distinguished literary family. His father was Mark Van Doren, Pulitzer- prizewinning poet and scholar; his mother was a novelist; his uncle, a famous historian; his aunt, editor of a respected book-review journal...
...turned boxes on wheels into high-flying fashions of steel and chrome. But then Gale labored for almost 25 years in a company that was known mainly for a single product, the dull and dowdy economy K-cars. Although Chrysler's minivan, introduced in the mid-1980s, was a godsend to Little League teams and den mothers across America, it would win no beauty prizes. Chrysler's problem was a familiar one in the industry: slow death by committees that would end up voting on things like wheel covers. "Overmanaging details was just a way of life," says Gale...
Science and politics are now conspiring to make that scenario -- scary to some, a godsend to others -- a reality, one that could allow abortion to be a truly private decision, albeit still not an easy one. Doctors have reported on a pivotal breakthrough in the use of the controversial French abortion drug known as RU 486: a woman who takes the drug will no longer have to go to a clinic for a follow-up injection to induce contractions. Instead, the entire procedure will involve simply taking two sets of pills. Concurrently, President Clinton has firmly signaled a willingness...
...money by itself will not prevent the collapse of megacities. The troubles of a Karachi or a Jakarta will not disappear if planners from the World Bank rush in to build housing projects and a freeway system. Humanitarian aid in the form of food and medicine can be a godsend, but it will not give a city prosperity...