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...Jimmy Carter's small and tranquil study down the hall from the Oval Office, a black loose-leaf notebook takes up a proud place on a bookshelf that is crowded from end to end with epics of man's struggles through wars, pestilence and economic disaster. The notebook is warmed by sunlight and caressed by piped-in Brahms. That is fitting. Within the notebook's 111 tidy pages, divided by ten pink tabs, is a fantasy that needs sunbursts and violins...
...Alexander Leaf, Jackson Professor of Clinical Medicine at Harvard and originally a proponent of transplants at MGH, said yesterday he and most of the other surgeons uphold the board's decision. "Much more research on its therapeutic effectiveness and cost efficiency needs to be done," he added...
...ability of corporations to bring about progressive change and social justice is unfounded. Noting that U.S. corporations employ less than one-tenth of 1 per cent of the black population in South Africa, Mary Nolan, associate professor of History, says the principles are a "face-saver or fig leaf for the corporations that in no way change the fundamental problems of apartheid, and are being used counter to Sullivan's own intentions." "Corporations are active in South Africa for cheap labor," Nolan says, adding, "it is simply unrealistic to believe they will take steps that would imperil their profits...
...fruits, compressed into a few square inches of surface. They are also fresher than most European Renaissance paintings because they have been protected between the covers of books, so that the pigment has not faded through exposure to light. The one exception to this is the silver leaf that Safavid artists customarily used to represent water: it has tarnished, turning the garden fountains, the rivers and waterfalls to soot...
...have heard that "part of the game" excuse too many times from hockey and football apologists. Sure, pain is part of the game. Toronto Maple Leaf defenseman Bobby Baun once scored an overtime goal against Howe's Red Wings after breaking an ankle during regulation. As the Soviets and Montreal have repeatedly proved, however, intimidation is less important than strength. Violence has no place. Gordie Howe has best tread the tightrope...