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Start up costs caused must of the deficit, said Marius van Baalen '66, an OIT official. He added her expects the sale of the machines to help cover some of the losses. Both the law School and the Graduate School of Education Schools have "expressed interest in acquiring some of these units," said law, adding that the University also may sell to outside buyers...
Thomas More By Richard Marius Knopf...
...Richard Marius (the Director of the Expository Writing Program at Harvard) paints a different picture of More than we're used to. The More in keeping with Hans Holbien's 1527 drawing of the man. Holbien's sketch shows a prosperous Tudor gentleman in a fur-trimmed robe, surrounded by his family and signs of his wealthy. Above More's head hangs a clock dangling ominously. Marius fleshes out the ambiguities and tensions in More's Character at which Holbien hints...
...Marius's More is a darker, complex man than that of pope in legend, a man haunted, filled with rage and not "altogether admirable." This new More is an actor, writing his lines as he goes along. Arrogant in public, he's a victim of debilitating doubt in private. This More is a workahotled. A failed monk, he chooses marriages and a secular career in London. He is a merciless scourge of heretics and, at the same time, is preoccupied with death and tears for his own soul...
...scaffold, Marius proposes, was the final stage for a player who may have acted to the end. Without presuming to answer, the author raises a question: Did More die for what he believed or for what he wanted to believe? If indeed'the last enemy for More was not fear but doubt, that makes him no less a hero, and even more of a modern saint. -By Melvin Maddocks