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...burdens. They also recognize the fact their population will likely remain small for many years, as the pool of Black and Hispanic graduate students is disproportionately tiny. But until Harvard is willing to lessen the load minorities face, it will not succeed in attracting faculty members who can provide insight into both new and established fields, professors...
Despite the packaging, posturing and pretensions that went into my candidacy for the Class of '88, the powers that were at Harvard received at least two bits of disturbing insight into my psyche circa 1984. Now I'm not proud of this, but I filled in the last question on the application form. That was the one which asked if we had any special talents or qualities which the admissions committee should be aware of before passing judgment on our young personages...
Another chapter gives a refreshing insight into Roy Eisenhardt, the progressive president of the Oakland A's--one of the few baseball executives who cares more about their players and the state of the game than about making money from it. Angell shows that Eisenhardt considers baseball not as merely another tidy, profitable investment, but rather as an activity that can bring joy to thousands and provide a badly needed diversion from our daily lives...
...just as the audience and, seemingly, the playwright himself cannot decide whether the laughable-sounding book under consideration is insight or eyewash, so it is hard to say whether Speed-the-Plow is an outcry against Hollywood or a cynical apologia from a man who, in real life, is finishing one Hollywood film and about to start another. Mamet has said that by being oblique, even obscure, he forces spectators to think. At least some playgoers, however, yearn for a writer straightforward enough to have the courage of his own convictions...
...Hance, a member of the Texas Railroad Commission, which regulates oil production in that beleaguered state. While Hance, 45, had no mandate or inclination to negotiate production cuts on the part of Texas or the U.S., he went to the meeting to "share our experience ((and)) give them our insight on how prices could be stabilized." Texans, who have felt neglected by the rest of the U.S. in recent years, sometimes like to point out that if their state were a member of OPEC, it would rank among the group's largest producers, trailing only the Saudis, the Iraqis...