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...culprit has not yet explained his motives. College officials, however, have several hypotheses. "It was a wonderful, big pumpkin, and a challenge. Swarthmore students are always up for a challenge," Dickerson said, adding, "he hasn't given me any real insight into whether he needed the pumpkin or if he wanted to make...
...previous excerpts from books by Henry Kissinger, Jimmy Carter, Alexander Haig, Theodore H. White and Soviet Defector Arkady Shevchenko, by Executive Editor Ronald Kriss. "Before we choose a book to excerpt," says Kriss, "we always ask: Does it enlarge our knowledge of history; does it give us new insight into the way our world works?" Bonner's book combines both deeply personal and broadly historical elements. Says Kriss: "It is a story of two people living in terrible isolation, but also waging a heroic fight against a vast and monolithic state system. The title has it right: Bonner and Sakharov...
...bunch of Harvard faculty members what books influenced their thinking and publish the results. Not much work is involved: pass around a few questionnaires; and then call a publisher eager to publish a book plugging other books. The result is this book, a rambling, pretentious mishmash of egoism and insight that is, ultimately, hard to hate...
Still, Higher Learning is valuable for its survey of the state of American higher education. It also makes fascinating reading for those Bokologists who have the time to read the book and want to gain some insight into the mind of Harvard's once and future president...
...evident on Today, where she will do pieces on such atypical topics as men who have been the prime rearers of their offspring and the psychological effects that adopted children have on parents. "My hope with TV," explains Steinem, "is always that you can offer some fact or insight that the person on the other side of the tube would not otherwise get." Not to mention the other...