Word: metropolitane
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...Harvard's $19 billion endowment; James R. "Jamie" Houghton `58, chair emeritus of Corning, Inc., and a member of the Board of Directors of a half-a-dozen companies ranging from Exxon Mobil to MetLife, who has most recently he has filled his time as the chair of the Metropolitan Museum of Art; and the youngest member of the search committee—the only one under 60—Herbert S. "Pug" Winokur...
...Japanese taxi drivers begin. The required answer is as bound by ritual as the question. Certain stock phrases are to be avoided. Admiration of samurai, kimono, Mount Fuji or geisha is, on the whole, not well received. For, like those wrong-headed textbooks, this might suggest that modern, international, metropolitan Japan is not sufficiently appreciated...
...according to a survey by the National Opinion Research Center, 55% of white Southerners agreed strongly that blacks shouldn't push for inclusion where they are not wanted; 26.5% agreed slightly. Last year 19% agreed strongly, and 30% slightly. Most of the progress, social scientists say, has come in metropolitan areas; in the rural South, old ideas die hard. And progress has made loyalists more militant about holding onto their idea of Dixie: its history and heritage, its family and sovereignty, its thumb in the eye of Northern culture and, for some, its codes of racial superiority and subjugation...
This is one reason the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City is devoting its big show this year to "Jacqueline Kennedy: the White House Years." A less scholarly reason is that anything with Jackie's name attached is guaranteed to bring crowds through the doors. What the crowds will find when the show opens on May 1 is an exhibit lavishly guest curated by Hamish Bowles, 37, a Vogue fashion editor who may now know Jackie's wardrobe better than she did. Costume shows at the Met are ordinarily confined to cramped basement rooms...
...find it hard to believe that scientists can accurately predict what kind of weather we will have in 100 years. Last month we in the New York metropolitan area heard alarming predictions of 2 ft. of snow in Manhattan, but we ended up getting just a few inches. If looking only a couple of days into the future can produce a weather-forecast goof like that, how can anyone accurately predict what the effects of global warming will be 100 years from now? PAUL MCGRAW Rockville Centre...