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...American mind so much as it lives under the American skin, deep in the American gut -- that somehow the U.S. is morally superior to every other country in the world. This innocence about our misdeeds, not understanding that we've been accomplices in the very evils we profess to abhor, that's got to be buried...
...Drexel still displays its characteristic moxie. The firm is handling a $3.5 billion junk-bond offering as part of the $25 billion leveraged buyout of RJR Nabisco. For its share in financing history's largest takeover, Drexel expects to take in $229 million before expenses. Many clients still profess their allegiance. Says raider and oilman Pickens, who relied on Drexel's financing clout to make bids for Gulf Corp. and Phillips Petroleum: "I have the highest regard for Fred Joseph...
...wrong--I know that in the face of a zillion worthier, more desperate causes, alumni give plenty of money to Harvard itself, but at least the University professes to provide its students with an education. But what do the final clubs profess to do? Nothing. Nothing but provide space for male bonding, which can be done as easily in a bar or a dorm room, or anywhere, really. Most of the men at Harvard don't belong to final clubs and they all seem to be doing just fine. Actually, they seem to be doing a hell...
...consider that "Justice" and Government 1061, a modern political theory course, 1) share reading selections and 2) both profess to investigate modern liberalism. Yet the departmental offering will not satisfy you Core requirement. Ridiculous? Absolutely...
...Since work resumed in December after a 19-year halt, the arsenal has manufactured a chemical called DF, which becomes nerve gas when mixed with alcohol. Workers are also busy incinerating some 94,000 lbs. of an obsolete hallucinogenic agent known as BZ. Yet area residents profess to have few fears about the facility. "Nothing bothers people out here," says James Morgan, 46, an insurance agent who lives near the site. "I guess it's because they've been around the arsenal so long...