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Harvard has been permitted to appeal Cortese's office's decision five times. It reached that office because it had received approval from other agencies. All of these approvals were based upon particular submissions, engineering specifications, cost estimates, the lot. The Chapter 121A agreement, for example, was based on a...
Growing tired of the New Republic, Lippmann moved on to the Pulitzer-owned New York World to expand his influence among a wider circe of readers. Working there until 1931, when financial difficulties forced the World, the nation's most important liberal newspaper, to fold, his political sentiments gradually shifted...
The Greeks placed man in a precarious magnetic field between what is aspiring, rational, noble and demigodlike in his nature and raw, tameless instinctual drives that would shame the beasts. That is the thematic core of The Bacchae. But the dramatic spring, common to ancient tragedy, is a test of...
Muhammad Ali entered the squared circle of Caesar's Palace in his best physical shape of the last five years. He was 38 years old, yes, but also a master of magic, and there were those who thought that he had harnessed all the weird motive forces of the universe...
Carter's statements bring the United States no closer to military intervention in the Persian Gulf. They are not scary, but calm and rational.