Word: life
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...release February 25, Galbraith's third novel, A Tenured Professor, revolves around the life of Montgomery Marvin, a fictional junior professor of economics at Harvard. Marvin invents the Index of Irrational Expectations (IRAT), an economic formula that allows him to make a fortune...
Joseph A. Kanon '68, who edited the manuscript of A Tenured Professor, said the telling details of a Harvard professor's life are the only autobiographical elements of the book...
...ultimately, McKibben is a sentimentalist, not a scientist, for which The End of Nature suffers. The book's last chapter dissolves into a series of ruminations about what McKibben terms an "anthropocentric" society that values human life above all other forms. In order to forestall the end of nature, he says, humanity needs to begin thinking about the earth as a whole...
...Tigers roared back to life in the fourth set, quickly piling up a 9-3 lead. But Harvard would not give up and teamed together in every sense of the word, slowly sealing the gap to tie the game...
...decisive factor in the disparity. "I trust the women of Virginia," Wilder taunted his opponent in a televised debate last week. "That's the difference between you and I." Coleman is trying the hang-tough route, sticking to his staunch opposition to abortion in all cases except where the life of the woman is in danger. But he has promised that if he wins the election he will not propose legislation to outlaw the termination of pregnancies that result from rape or incest...