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...Symbolically, it was a good presidency," Robert D. Putnam, professor of Government, said yesterday. "But relatively little was accomplished...
Frank Herbert's Dune books dealt with life, war and death on a desert planet. The White Plague (Putnam; $14.95) is set on earth in the grim present. Molecular Biologist John Roe O'Neill, an Irish American in Dublin, sees his wife and children annihilated by an I.R.A. bomb. Vengeance becomes his spur. In a home laboratory he invents a new disease and releases the plague in three nations: Ireland, because his family died there; England, because of British oppression; and Libya, because it operates training schools for terrorists. The disease spreads so quickly that life itself...
...Putnam said that although he is never fully satisfied with the University's investment results. "Harvard has had a strong recovery and we're pleased with...
Wall St.'s conclusion that the current recession will not worsen was another factor in the market's turn--around, Putnam said. The stock market is saying that economic recovery is looming at an uncertain future point, he added...
...Yale and Princeton, for example, the portfolios were more heavily invested in stock, and consequently, their returns were down approximately 5 to 8 percent, Putnam said...