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...shifted the fund managers last March. Some of the funds were not doing as well as they ought to have been, and many were wandering far from their ostensible mandates. The Blue Chip Growth Fund, for example, was heavily invested in small and midsize companies. (Its manager, Michael Gordon, left Fidelity to work with Vinik.) Asset Manager, which was supposed to be a low-risk diversified fund, had 18% of its holdings in Mexican debt...
Hall went to Harvard, and some of the sequence takes place here; naturally, he read these poems to great enthusiasm on Tuesday. In one, he reminisces about Gordon Cairnie, the old owner of the Grolier Book Shop; in another, he talks about meeting Wallace Stevens at The Game and inviting him to a party at the Advocate. But the very success of such injokes at the Brattle--it was almost possible to see people thinking, "Hey, I've been to the Grolier!"--makes one wonder about the enduring interest of these poems. To fully appreciate them seems to require...
...prospects for long-term disaffection, however, are higher now than in years. By remaining as polarized as they have been, the two dominant parties continue to fan the flames of interest in an alternative. According to Gordon Black, a pollster who specializes in third-party movements, "Voters' fundamental problem with the Democratic and Republican parties is still unresolved. They want a centrist voice. So it isn't as bleak for a third party as it looks...
...GORDON SMITH Republican--Oregon His late-count win over fellow millionaire Tom Bruggere, whom he nonetheless outspent better than 2 to 1, keeps five-term Senator Mark Hatfield's seat in G.O.P. hands...
...Beckett Festival, which ended last week, is fresh evidence of a bustling industry devoted to the Nobel-prizewinning author. He has inspired more than 100 books, including three essential studies this year: Mel Gussow's Conversations with and About Beckett (Grove Press) and two biographies--Lois Gordon's The World of Samuel Beckett, 1906-1946 (Yale University Press) and an authorized life, Damned to Fame, by Beckett scholar James Knowlson (due in October from Simon & Schuster). Knowlson's book is reverent, exhaustive--3,361 footnotes!--and full of fine detail on Beckett's dogged, monastic creativity. If anyone could know...