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Really, really, I recommend that you read Mr. Zbigniew Herbert. He is a serious poet, full of beauty that does not insult our modern post-atrocity sensibilities. A Polish poet born in 1950 who was active in his country's anti-Communist movement, Herbert died in 1998, leaving behind an oeuvre that begins with spare poems about creation, antiquity and art. He then continues those themes through increasingly pointed and readable poetry while also developing a strong form of the prose poem that mixes fairy tales, images from everyday life and an aphoristic style. The recently published posthumous collection Elegy...

Author: By Benjamin E. Lytal, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Zbigniew H. Dies, a Master | 2/12/1999 | See Source »

Thomas Professor of Government and of Sociology Theda Skocpol, who won tenure at Harvard after appealing her department's decision not to recommend her, expressed doubt about the efficacy of the University's guidelines in a situation like Berkowitz...

Author: By Jacqueline A. Newmyer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Berkowitz Close To Suing Harvard Over Tenure | 2/11/1999 | See Source »

...meeting held last night, the executive board of PBHA voted unanimously to recommend that the PBHA board of trustees assent to Ong's proposed amendments...

Author: By Kevin E. Meyers and Robert K. Silverman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: PBHA Awaits $1.3M Bequest | 2/11/1999 | See Source »

...this way and others, investing should be fun. I recommend setting aside a small portion (no more than 10%) of your portfolio to play hunches. Call it your fun money. If you want to take a flyer on a stock in an industry to which you're already heavily exposed, take the cash from your hunch pool. Meanwhile, make sure that your other 401(k) and any additional retirement accounts are invested in diversified stock funds or, if you're a stock picker, spread among other industries. There's nothing wrong with having confidence in your employer. But even Bill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spread Your Bets | 2/1/1999 | See Source »

...panel of 150 experts last week concluded that many congestive-heart-failure patients are not getting the best possible treatment. The experts recommend a regimen that includes digitalis and diuretics as well as two other key drugs, ACE inhibitors and beta-blockers, which are now underprescribed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Your Health: Feb. 1, 1999 | 2/1/1999 | See Source »

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