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...Ehrenreich's own definition, still involves elections. Although Ehrenreich denied any interest in "[associating] PBHA more closely with any particular candidates or partisan ideologies," she defended the official involvement of PBHA's leadership in a ballot contest in Cambridge this fall. This sort of "politics" is precisely the realm into which PBHA should not venture...
Blinds & Shutters by Michael Cooper (Genesis/Hedley; $595). Wherever the artists or arrivistes made the scene in 1960s London, Cooper was there, camera in hand. For those craving a (costly) glimpse of the time when the Beatles and the Stones ruled the realm -- "For a few years then we were just flying," recalls one of the bit players -- comes this collection of 600 works by their court photographer...
During his 18 years as president, Silber has been one of the most controversial figures in the realm of higher education, sometimes seen as a visionary, sometimes as a ruthless autocrat...
...really fun part. Tell insecure Yalies you now regret your decision to turn down Yale for Harvard, subtlely emphasizing that you got into Yale. You have now penetrated the realm of their most profound insecurity--that Yale is a school of Harvard rejects. Proceed carefully but surely...
...follow the radical libertarian doctrines of the late author Ayn Rand, maintain that capitalism is the sole moral system and that selfishness is necessary for rational decision-making and self-preservation. The Democratic Socialists, however, criticize Ayn Rand-style capitalism as the reduction of all human relationships to the realm of financial transactions...