Word: matters
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...club are good ones, but its nebulous membership policy is troubling. Without the benefit of College endorsement (and no single-sex social organization will or should be recognized by the College), the Seneca looks too much like a final club. And what Harvard women--and, for that matter, all undergraduates--need is for social life at the College to become less and not more fractionalized...
...people who have been killed in the name of nonexistent "racial purity" are no laughing matter, nor is all the energy we spend fighting over what separates blacks from whites instead of what they have in common. It would be easier to heal the racial breach if we took Truscott's lead and treated it as what it is: a quarrel among cousins...
...which he had to make billion-dollar bets based on inadequate information, the kind of predicament that he says often confronts public officials. To him, the decision-making process should focus on probabilities rather than the absolute nature of any choice. "It's not that results don't matter," he says. "But judging solely on results is a serious deterrent to taking the risks that may be necessary to making the right decision." And the smooth-talking Rubin was one of the few men who could pick up a phone, as he did in late 1997, and persuade his brethren...
...which most world leaders are plugged into hundreds of sources of information, from CNN to their own intelligence reports, Yeltsin's worldview is shaped largely by a daily press digest of about 17 pages. Whether he looks at it is another matter: a succession of aides have complained that he is loath to read. It is equally hard to persuade him to watch the TV news. Meanwhile the circle of people who have unfettered access to him is strikingly small. The circle consists of his former chief of staff Valentin Yumashev, who still wields enormous influence from the shadows; Yeltsin...
...matter what happens, America's Chrysler Corp. is history. If Bob Eaton simply cashes in his stock, he stands to make at least $200 million. As early as the end of this year, insiders expect, he will step down, leaving Schrempp to deliver on a promise that Chrysler's creative culture will survive...