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From time to time, people ask, “Is Harvard ungovernable?’ William F. Buckley, no friend of Harvard, once suggested that he would rather be ruled by a random list of names from the telephone directory than by the Harvard faculty. When Neil Rudenstine took an unprecedented medical leave early on in his presidency, editorialists opinioned on the impossibility of one man holding the reins of so fractious an entity as the modern university. And as early as 1769, Edward Holyoke, Class of 1705, Harvard’s 11th President, and who next to Eliot served...
More important than the awards, though, is the rare mix of ambition and imagination on display in the Mexicans' films. Babel, written by Oscar nominee Guillermo Arriaga, is a sprawling story of chance and destiny; a random gunshot from a reckless Moroccan boy triggers anguished events in Mexico, the U.S. and Japan. Children of Men conjures up a future world with no future: the human race has become infertile, and anarchy blankets the globe. Pan's Labyrinth burrows into the past, to Franco's Spain in 1944, and into a dark wonderland of fierce and magical creatures that offers escape...
...well in court. In Iowa this fall, a federal appellate court upheld the right of the Burlington Northern Railroad to test workers involved in accidents as well as those returning from furlough. More important, the Supreme Court last week refused to hear the appeal of five jockeys that random tests for drug and alcohol abuse violated their rights. A lower court had upheld the testing on the ground that jockeys are voluntary participants in an industry that must curry the confidence of bettors by assuring drug-free races. The Reagan Administration hopes that the courts will apply that reasoning...
...race is still tight: 52% of voters now say they would prefer Sarkozy to 48% for Royal in a head-to-head contest. But Socialists are more concerned by polls suggesting that their candidate's often random comments are undermining that ineffable quality of being "presidentiable," or enrobed with sufficient natural authority and gravitas for the top job. Her Socialist brethren used a version of that argument, often with a sexist undertone, to try to disqualify Royal last year, and it didn't work. But in France's relatively short campaign, mistakes are cumulative. Royal has inspired enthusiasm...
...Rudy Giuliani - with McCain edging Giuliani by a three- to four-point margin. And a presidential face-off between Clinton and McCain, right now, would be close to a dead heat. Those are some of the key findings of a new TIME poll earlier this week that canvassed a random sample of 1,064 registered voters by phone...