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...Broadway last week, depict men of privilege and potential who, out of indifference or gleeful masochism, systematically degrade everything around them, not least their own bright promise. They are apt to view their intelligence either as a burden, leading people to expect things of them, or as an outright curse, lifting their vision just enough to comprehend genius but nowhere near enough to emulate it. Well into their middle years they remain obsessed with the glories of university days, when the ethereal world of ideas opened to them, and regard everything that has come afterward as a sordid compromise...
Incidentally, Harvard could win the title outright if Cornell and Penn each lose their next two league games and then tie each other November...
...Tigers have won the most Big Three crowns--22 outright and 12 shared--over the series' history, followed closely by the Bulldogs (22, 10). Harvard, with 15 outright titles and 11 shared crowns, is a distant third...
More intriguing was the notion that mighty Citicorp was studying ways to acquire all or part of BankAmerica. Until a new California law takes effect in 1991, an outright buyout of BankAmerica by the New York institution is impossible. Federal bank regulators would also have to approve the move. Just as important, it hardly seemed likely that Tom Clausen had come out of retirement merely to preside over the sale of the empire that he did so much to build...
...last November. Like Reagan, Gorbachev has a < coterie of conservative critics who see no purpose to a second summit. Some Western observers believe the Communist Party General Secretary was criticized within the Politburo last year for getting too chummy with Reagan, and is now dogged by resistance, if not outright opposition, from the military and the conservative party officials...