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Eventually AIDS affected so many people, including journalists, that the story became unavoidable. Even then, a certain amount of distortion has remained: much recent coverage gives the impression that the disease is rampant among children (who actually make up only 2% of those afflicted), that it has become a "minority" disease (white gay males remain the largest single affected group), or that it is "on the wane" (a highly dubious proposition...
Creative Metaphors. Since Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence announced his plans to head west for the sunny climes of Stanford University, speculation has been rampant in the local press that Bok will name Professor of Government Joseph S. Nye, Jr. to succeed him. Second-guessing high-level appointments at Harvard is generally a fruitless endeavor, but Nye did prove in an interview this week that he possesses a knack for bizarre turns of phrase that might come in handy in a major administrative post...
Thus, despite such high-profile events, Harvard continues both actively and passively to contribute to the lack of affordable housing in the city and to the problem of rampant homelessness. Harvard has blocked proposals and community-based zoning initiatives in the recent past. Today, the Corporation continues to purchase and develop land at great rates and gives back to the city little in the way of compensation for tax losses...
Fighting inflation is a relatively new challenge for the Bank of Japan. For most of the 1980s, inflation was a faint, distant threat. Low oil prices kept increases at bay, even while property values soared. The rampant speculation in land prices, in fact, which made slivers of land in downtown Tokyo worth a fortune, was a powerful engine for the stock market. Investors could use their real estate holdings as collateral for buying stocks on margin. Then they could turn around and use their stocks as collateral to buy more real estate...
Disgust is rampant among baseball fans. "I'll still go to the games, but I won't cheer and I won't yell," one fan wrote in a letter to The Sporting News. "I'll just sit and watch. I won't say a word...