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...David Herbert Donald, the highly esteemed historian and author of 1995's Pulitzer Prize winning Lincoln, has fallen victim to that grim disorder that so often strikes Harvard's demigod professors. It's a disorder that most recently befell Fletcher University Professor Cornell R. West '74, with his Cornell West Reader. The disorder: over-inflated ego combined with tremendously juicy publishing deal...
...members of the Harvard Corporation will never set eyes on our demands. These strategies--closed doors and secret meetings--may be acceptable at Exxon Mobil, where Corporation member James R. Houghton '58 is a director. They may be acceptable at Enron, on whose board of directors Corporation member Herbert S. Winokur '65 serves. And they may be acceptable at Tricon Restaurants, home of Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, KFC and Corporation member D. Ronald Daniel. But they are not acceptable at our University. As a non-profit institution dedicated to higher learning, Harvard should operate through a qualitatively different power structure...
...Herbert Hoover and Harry S. Truman, on the other hand, are examples of the second model--"ambition to rise above modest origins," Brinkley says...
...mention a $231 billion worldwide industry for the microchips that are the heart of today's electronic wizardry, from computers to smart toasters to talking Barbie dolls. The other half of the prize, fittingly, went to Zhores Alferov of St. Petersburg's Ioffee Physico-Technical Institute and Herbert Kroemer of the University of California at Santa Barbara for continuing that revolution by pioneering the lightning-fast chips used in satellite links, cell phones and CD players...
...agencies, low productivity nations and the working poor. What is more disturbing, Gore refuses to foreswear the option of raising taxes if there is a recession. When asked whether tax increases during a recession are wise, Bush economist Lawrence Lindsey's response was curt and ominous, "That's what Herbert Hoover...