Word: happen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Boasting a mere four students, The Mountain School is not a school at all, but a ranch. There are no teachers, no classrooms, and no tests. And all the pupils happen to be brothers...
Most baseball fans never get to see an outfielder carry a ball over the fence for a home run. Baseball fans who chewed their nails through this year's playoffs and World Series saw it happen an amazing three times...
...happen in one week. Like the Red Sox--they happened in a big way. Writing this column last Tuesday afternoon, the Sox were up by two and the Mets would be playing in Sox home territory. The Happy Hacker's computer simulator was predicting the Sox in five...and plenty of time for him to finish his course work by Sunday...
When not teaching, Buchanan runs a 400-acre farm near Blacksburg, Va. He was rumored to have been a candidate for the Nobel award in 1984, but this year, he says, "I had no premonition this would happen. I was shocked." So were some mainstream economists who have paid little attention to Buchanan's work. One M.I.T. professor last week called public-choice theory "unsophisticated." Buchanan admits that his ideas are "not standard" but points out that many of his theories are "simple applications of common sense that the academics all forget about...
...Last week the popular President deepened speculation with a deliberate- ly ambiguous pronouncement. Speaking to a group of reporters at a military camp in southwestern France, Mitterrand said, "Every time I think about that question, everything within me says, 'No, I won't be a candidate'. . . Could anything happen to make me think that's a mistake? I cannot imagine...