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Perennial powerhouses Brown and M.I.T. pose the largest obstacles to Harvard's plans at the New Englands. Bruin Coach Ed Reed has eleven recruits to try to replace graduated superstar Russ Hertzberg. Reed and his boys have worked out at sunny U.C.L.A. for the past month so Brown, which has not lost a New England match in six years, should be virtually untouchable...
Five years ago, Steven Hertzberg, 32, earned a Ph.D. in history at the University of Chicago. He soon learned that a degree in his field was almost worthless in the marketplace. History departments have not been flourishing of late, and the only job he could find was a part-time assistant professorship at Minnesota's Carleton College. Annual pay: $6,000. "I wanted to stay in teaching," he recalls, "but I had an antipathy toward starving." Today Hertzberg runs his own hardware store in Queens, N.Y., and makes almost three times as much as the average assistant professor...
Hardware may be his livelihood, but the software of history remains Hertzberg's passion. He has published a history of the Jewish community in Atlanta from 1845 to 1915, and he continues to write for scholarly journals. One reason he is able to pursue academic interests away from universities: Hertzberg is a member of the Institute for Research in History, a nonprofit group that helps historians continue scholarly work even though they lack teaching positions...
Ironically, some members of the White House staff grew restive at all the public threats by Carter about taking military action against Iran?presumably in May. Last Tuesday Jordan called a meeting to hear their complaints. Speech Writer Hendrik Hertzberg said he could not shake "an uneasy feeling that we're slipping down a slippery slope toward a military confrontation." Eizenstat said he was worried about a disruption in world oil supplies if other Persian Gulf countries reacted to U.S. military moves by cutting oil shipments to the West. Insisted Jordan: "'The President has made no decision, not even...
...deadline for the State of the Union message neared, Hertzberg tried New Foundation, and it turned out to be, as they say, a slogan whose time had come. But for how long...