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...college can and cannot do. The college cannot keep all students safe at all times. It can provide for the safety of identifiable groups of students, e.g., students traveling from Lamont to the River Houses at night. Student proposals for increased security expenditures must be presented in terms of long-run costs and benefits to the community at large. Over the short run, the responsibility for particular choices (shall I go to Elsie's alone?) rests squarely on the shoulders of the individual student...
...room and board alone--regardless of the exposure to Harvard's renowned Faculty and diverse student body--the annual cost would run only slightly lower than the present Harvard term bill. Then there's the privilege of using advanced equipment, hearing famous people speak on campus, and the possible long-run returns gained from a Harvard diploma. So although $10,000 a year might look like a lot, on closer examination it's a pretty good deal...
...state, few international bankers expect that its funds will be cut off. Most banks are awash in deposits and looking for places to make safe investments. Says Vivian Morgan-Mendez, an economist at Sào Paulo's Banco de Boston: "What other country looks better as a long-run proposition?" The answer, of course, is that many do. But Brazil has achieved that most enviable role of a debtor: it is so far in hock to so many banks that its creditors cannot allow it to go broke...
...efficiency in transportation, construction and industry is out of the hands of the average consumer. But Anderson's conservative reluctance to let the federal government spend money on massive programs or mandate standards for business prevents him from advocating the steps necessary to what he realizes is the only long-run solution. Like Jimmy Carter, he is therefore reduced to asking sacrifices of those who are already sacrificing...
...plot summary can so easily capture the real McGee. One of the most complex long-run characters in American fiction, he is moody, sensuous, suspicious, quixotic, cynical, compassionate-and funny. He has achieved independence from "plastic credit cards, payroll deductions, insurance programs, retirement benefits, Green Stamps, time clocks, newspapers, mortgages, sermons, miracle fabrics, deodorants, checklists, time payments, political parties, lending libraries, television, actresses, Junior Chambers of Commerce, pageants, progress and manifest destiny." Hence his license to purge iniquity. Unlike most of his fictional colleagues, the creaky crusader visibly ages. "He grows older at about one-third the natural rate," says...