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Cushy jobs are not limited to the Union. The job of Deborah Pan '93, who works at the Currier House bell's desk, includes such highbrow tasks as giving wake-up calls and guarding the entrance to the 10-man room on party nights...
...generation ago, the Bible society produced another simplified version, the Good News Bible (113 million Bibles and Testaments in print); the 1991 Bible is even less highbrow. In Today's Family Bible, for example, angels proclaim Jesus' birth by saying, "Praise God in heaven! Peace on earth to everyone who pleases God." The Lord's Prayer runs, "Our Father in heaven, help us to honor your name. Come and set up your kingdom...
...RECORD: Neil L. Rudenstine does not read People magazine. Ditto for Omni and Playboy. His taste in periodicals is much more highbrow: The New York times, Art in America, Harvard magazine. Overall, a most impressive reading list--although somewhat lacking in melodrama and intrigue...
...mayor of the city of New York responds to articles in the highbrow New York Times and the lowbrow New York Post. Whey does the chief executive of Harvard feel no similar obligation...
...points to the hard-nosed pieces he has published detailing the behind-the- scenes negotiations that went into the Matsushita buyout of MCA and Sony's * purchase of Columbia Pictures. Coffey boosters contend that Calendar's emphasis on profiles and reviews simply makes the section more competitive with the highbrow arts and culture section of the New York Times, which began circulating its national edition in Los Angeles...