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Huntington is currently director of the Center International Affairs and is also president of the American Political Science Association. He was formerly chairman of the Government Department at Harvard. According to the Social Sciences Citation Index 1981-1985, he is the most quoted political scientist in the field of International Relations. Some of his books are required reading in some political science courses in several universities (for instance Yale). Beyond the academic world, he has also consulted for the State Department and the CIA. From 1966 to 1969, he chaired the Vietnamese subcommittee of the U.S. government's Southeast Asia...
...rational; perhaps it is better to speak of causes, since with this auction such convulsions at the higher end of the art market are flatly shown for what they are, symptoms of pathology. There is no rational price for a work of art. That price is solely an index of desire, and nothing is more manipulable than desire, a fact as well known to auctioneers as to hookers. All works of art are worth exactly what someone can be induced to pay for them as fictions of uniqueness...
...with blood, Remar slipped into a skimpy orange Speedo, donned a straw hat and strutted the beach before a line of spring-break beauties, who beamed and clapped in approval. Consensus on the flutter factor: 8 or 9, which is pretty amazing for someone who justifiably rated his hunk index at 0 a year ago. Even the college guys hooted and howled in agreement. An older fellow, Philip Finn, who was on vacation from Plains, Pa., was also awed, but confided to me, "What I'm interested in watching is whether he keeps it off." So am I. Then again...
...threw a drink at Johnny Carson, slapped a critic after he had panned one of her works, slept with an entire Borscht Belt of comedians and had lesbian relationships with a number of celebrities. All this has proved irresistible to Seaman, who takes Susann seriously, complete with index, bibliography and detailed footnotes. Lovely Me ^ contains more than 200 interviews and countless inside stories. All it lacks is the salty humor and gutsy immediacy its subject was famous...
...total bill for updating the market basket, which involved a survey of 40,000 households in 1982-84, was $45 million. But that amount is small compared with how much the Government might save from a more precise CPI. Reason: the index serves as the basis for adjustments in payments to tens of millions of Social Security recipients and other federal beneficiaries...