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...Norton Eliot Professor of Poetry for 1988-89, Cage joins the company of T.S. Eliot '10 and Leonard Bernstein. Last year, the post was given to literary critic Harold Bloom...
...Bulger's former law partner, Thomas Finnerty, received $500,000 from real-estate developer Harold Brown for help in securing government permits on the State Street project. Two years later, Brown sued Finnerty, claiming the payment was part of an influence-peddling scam involving the Senate President...
...disturbing implication is that AIDS is becoming a disease of the disadvantaged. Blacks and Hispanics make up a disproportionate 40% of all AIDS cases, and that percentage is sure to rise. Says Dr. Harold Jaffe, chief epidemiologist in the AIDS division of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta: "The evening-news segments about AIDS used to show gay men walking hand in hand down a San Francisco street. Now it may be appropriate to show the black child in Harlem...
...mostly midsize-and- smaller cars gets an average of 27.5 m.p.g., vs. 27.2 for General Motors and 26.6 for Ford. GM Chairman Roger Smith has denounced a higher gas tax as "cruel" and "unfair" and argued that it would dampen auto sales. Ford has straddled the fence. Vice Chairman Harold Poling said his company would support a phased increase of 15 cents per gal. over three years, but only as a last resort for cutting the deficit...
Britain sought to straddle the divide by naming Prince Philip, who as a naval lieutenant accompanied his uncle Lord Mountbatten to the Japanese surrender ceremonies in 1945. Philip's war credentials partly defused the issue, but the president of the National Federation of Far Eastern Prisoners of War Association, Harold Payne, reportedly said Mountbatten "would turn in his grave" if he knew of the Prince Consort's plans. Likely to roil the waters further is an upcoming BBC documentary contending that Hirohito must have known of the 1937 rape of Nanking, in which Japanese troops butchered at least...