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...latest revelations have cast a shadow of suspicion over the entire corporate community and are especially upsetting to the vast majority of businessmen who have spotless records and nothing to hide. "It's scary, isn't | it?" says David Ransburg, who owns a business in Peoria, Ill. "What I resent is that all of us who operate honestly and ethically get indicted in the broad sweep." Both businessmen and consumers are asking why the new outbreak of lawlessness is occurring, and the Reagan Administration is stepping up efforts to bring it under control. Says Stanton Wheeler, director of Yale University...
...certainly didn't believe he intended to harm his wife, or you wouldn't have associated with him, isn't that true?" challenged Chief Defense Attorney Thomas Puccio. Replied Isles, with a sigh: "I'm ashamed to say it's not true...
...structure in this country. Two stark facts stare from his analysis. One is that test scores and grades are the only indicator that can satisfactorily predict academic success in college. The other is that, this said, there is little that can help us predict success in later life. But isn't this latter kind of success exactly the kind of success we are most interested in fostering? Because this type cannot be predicted adequately, Klitgaard seems to say, let's ignore it. Yet this seems self-defeating, as we may then be forced to reward people for the wrong reasons...
Harvard has scared me too. Too many Harvard experiences. I've been told. "You can't sing," or "I his isn't a poem," or "No, you don't want to do that." The other day I ran into an old acquaintance and had another Harvard experience. He asked me what I've done lately...
...that "the evening contains at least five different plays, each with its own method and tone"; cites influences as diverse as Bertolt Brecht and D.W. Griffith; and even warns patrons that "there is no seat in the house from which the entire production can be seen. After all, this isn't television...