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Past Massey lecturers have included, Richard Rorty, Toni Morrison, Gore Vidal, and Alfred Kazin...
...TONI MORRISON, 74 Having won the Pulitzer and the Nobel, she continues to write novels as well as teach at Princeton...
...rest of the Irish band called U2 seem to be citizens of some alternative time frame spliced from the idealism of the '60s and the musical free-for-all of the late '70s. Their songs have the phantom soul of the Band, the Celtic wonderment of their compatriot Van Morrison and some of the assertiveness of punk, refined into lyrical morality plays...
...approach. Earlier than that, just a simple nudge, accomplished, say, by firing a heavy object at the asteroid, could change its course enough to miss the crucial but small keyhole. Any time after that approach, should Apophis pass through the keyhole, we could be in trouble. NASA scientist David Morrison explains: "After 2029, the deflection would have to be vigorous enough to miss not just a tiny keyhole but the much larger target of the Earth itself. And such a deflection is far beyond present technology for an asteroid this large...
...Icahn was able to announce earnings of $72 million for the third quarter of 1986. He has promised an unspecified profit for the fourth quarter. If he delivers, it will be the first time TWA has finished that period in the black since 1966. Even so, says J. Clarence Morrison, a senior analyst at the Dean Witter Reynolds investment firm, the "question is whether Icahn's plate is now getting too full...