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Vice-President Al Gore '69, self proclaimed "information guru," has taken the banner of the new age, promising to lead us all down the information superhighway to more enlightened times. The Clinton Administration has endorsed a proposal to allow companies to form a multimedia conglomeration...
Dressed in a black sari accented by a "Brooklyn" necklace, other gold chains, heavy gold earrings and a nose-ring, the unconventional guru spoke in a thick Brooklyn accent about death and caring for the terminally...
...describe the B+ in exhalted terms. Is the B+ a good grade? "I think it's a great grade," bubbles chemistry professor Gregory L. Verdine. "It's a grade you would praise someone for highly," proclaims Harvey C. Mansfield, professor of government, notorious gadfly and grade-deflation guru...
...that," says a senior Administration official. "The President can still declare victory as long as universal coverage is promised at some point." Yet Clinton's plan could stall completely unless Moynihan's worries about the "collateral consequences" are addressed. Inexplicably, Moynihan and Ira Magaziner, the Administration's health-care guru, have yet to talk about employer mandates. "We want to get everything in order first," says a White House aide, who predicts the bipartisan Congressional Budget Office will "shortly endorse our financing assumptions" -- an optimism other Administration officials don't share. The problem, says Moynihan, is that "anyone who thinks...
Although it costs as much as a bottle of Perrier-Jouet brut, many wine lovers will consider the new (third) edition of Parker's Wine Buyer's Guide (Simon & Schuster; $40) an indispensable purchase. The nation's pre-eminent guru of grape, Robert M. Parker Jr., is writer-publisher of a plain-as-plonk (no ads, no pictures) bimonthly newsletter, The Wine Advocate. His trenchant opinions, as well as his still debated ratings of wine on a 100- point scale, are recycled into columns for the Prodigy computer network and Wine Enthusiast and Food & Wine magazines. They also feed...