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...Hopefully, we can play as well as we did at home," Dartmouth Coach Brian Mason said. "Harvard's a talented team and we haven't played since [the game at Hanover...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Big Green Invasion, But Too Big? | 12/12/1987 | See Source »

...what does make the stock market rise and fall? Mason Sexton graduated from Harvard Business School in 1972, went to Wall Street, and decided that all the traditional ways of making predictions were "at best hit or miss." Then he learned of the Fibonacci Ratio, based on the work of a 13th century Italian mathematician, and a modern development of it known as the Elliott Wave Theory, which declares that all advancing markets have five waves up and three waves down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: New Age Harmonies | 12/7/1987 | See Source »

...explain it to you," says Jackie Mason in his television commercials for the new Honda Prelude with four-wheel steering. Jabbing his elbows this way and that, the Borscht Belt funnyman proceeds to confuse a subject that is already complicated: "The car is going like this, the wheel is going like that, you're going like this because you can't figure out where did the back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: How To Turn on a Dime | 12/7/1987 | See Source »

Since 1983, the University of California at Irvine has given salaries of $76,000-plus to get ten luminaries. The University of Tennessee at Knoxville's $85,000 to $90,000 Chairs of Excellence have lured two engineering whizzes, with a third to be announced next month. George Mason University has attracted 35 scholars in the past five years with pay of $60,000 to $123,000 (vs. a national average of around $45,000 for a tenured professor). Poised to nab 20 more academic stars, Mason President George Johnson demurs: "Raiding isn't the right phrasing; it's selective...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Raiders in The Groves of Academe | 11/23/1987 | See Source »

Anthropologist Mary Catherine Bateson, once dean of the faculty at Amherst College, where she fought what she saw as entrenched male chauvinism, jumped to freewheeling George Mason, where she would have more time to write. "I thought it would be fun to try a school with chutzpah," she says. Last week Princeton announced that Toni Morrison, the much honored black female novelist (Song of Solomon, Beloved), was leaving the State University of New York at Albany for Princeton, where all hands insist that she will be no ornament but fully active in writing classes, Afro-American studies and the rest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Raiders in The Groves of Academe | 11/23/1987 | See Source »

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