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...industrialized world made pilgrimages to the doors of the oil-rich, looking to buy petroleum and to sell everything from weapons to steel mills. In the Middle East, the cascade of petrodollars brought about novel configurations of regional power, with Saudi Arabia taking a leading role. Bankers rushed to lend billions of dollars to such oil producers as Mexico and Nigeria, which were embarked on crash development programs. Always there was the worry that the industrialized world would be brought to its knees by a cutoff of the precious and ever more expensive petroleum supply...
...routinely shun the input of those who will be affected by its decisions? Often, Harvard is simply afraid of hearing their suggestions. It's easier to rule from above than to listen to the wishes of those below. One of the few times when Harvard does stoop down and lend its ear to the underlings is when it chooses new house masters. The Dean of the College meets with house residents, and students participate on the master selection committee. Such an outrageously progressive decision-making process should serve as a model for major appointment decisions, and other choices that affect...
...into making a nightclub what it is. Each night they dress the part in appearance and in attitude. In a sense, clubgoers project their fantasies onto the unreal world the nightclub offers. It is a world which condones and often invites the extremes of the imagination. Snippets of conversation lend credence to this view...
Okay, so maybe that's a little overstated. But the folks I know who are "into" The Dead--I'm sure you know some too--lend themselves easily to overstatement. The whole scene has become almost a cultural cliche, and certainly a musical anachronism, but I'm not going to get really mean because some of my Deadhead friends got me a seat on my school's "Dead Bus," which was informally run by several undergrads for transport to the concert. Tickets, I was assured, were no problem. Everyone scalped them at the stadium...
...parade of valuables in Washington might suggest, to the uninitiated, that the British can easily afford to maintain them. Some mildew and burst upholstery would lend poignancy to the subliminal cry for help. In any case, a collection is not a house, and the catchpenny title "Treasure Houses"-- suggesting Palladian Fort Knoxes inhabited by Volpones from Debrett's--does not convey the agreeably worn mixture of the grand and the scruffy that often defines their charm. The show embraces conventions of glamour (mainly about Georgian England) that few social historians would accept today. It rehearses the conventional picture of enlightened...