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...runner Fernando Bouz took the lead early in the 3000, followed closely by a Crimson trio of Weber, Peter Jelley and Andrew Gerken. It soon became a three-man race between Bouz, Weber, and Jelley, and coming into last lap, Bouz was first, with Weber trailing by a few steps. One hundred yards into the last lap, Weber picked up the speed and passed Bouz on the last turn, breaking away from him in the stretch. Weber finished the race with a time of 8:18.2, just nine-tenths of a second off the Harvard record...
...Laffer curve, they say, fell off the table and onto the lap of America. The details of that encounter grew larger than life, as Wanniski used the editorial pages of his newspaper to spread the doctrine of balancing the budget by cutting taxes. Laffer meanwhile became the guru of the cult--young and virile, he embodied the youthful energy that massive taxcuts and comprehensive deregulation could unleash, a spirit of enterprise and discipline that would signal the awakening of a new America. Crackpots, more conventional economists called them, but the three set their nets out and fished for disciples, drawing...
...felt less intimidated by the Eagle now. I strode securely through the line, smiling self-assuredly as I watched train after train leave the loading point and inch its way up the first rise. I laughed nonchalantly as I buckled my seatbelt and pulled the safety bar toward my lap. I thanked the attendant when she wished me a pleasant ride...
Lord says there are topics--namely gun control and abortion--that she doesn't address. "I'd be willing, but I'm not sure the paper would welcome my views," she says. In a similar fashion, she often finds herself hoping that exciting media events will fall into her lap when Harvard administrators would just as soon see the Yard free of television cameras and sound crews. Last spring, when rumors "were hot and heavy" that Reagan might turn up to give a Commencement speech, Lord appeared on Channel 5 to comment on negotiations between Massachusetts Hall and the White...
Still, after four years of traveling across 1.24 billion miles of space, there was no faulting Voyager 2's marksmanship. Indeed, one golf-minded scientist likened it to sinking a 500-mile putt. Superlatives were certainly in order last week as the semiautonomous robot completed the second lap of its epic flight: a rendezvous with the giant ringed planet Saturn, the spectacular finale to two ambitious decades of planetary exploration by unmanned U.S. spacecraft...