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...admire, the council has just had their foremost achievement--that which they were most proud of and which symbolized the most good they had done for the students of Harvard--quietly taken away by those with which the true power lies, the bureaucrats of the University. Of course we refer to the once-proud tradition of chocolate milk, available to every student in each dining hall's dispenser...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Let Them Drink Skim | 9/27/1988 | See Source »

...extremely happy there, and I was thrilled to have some control over its continuing excellence and well-being." Still, if stories about him must be written, he would like to see a few that do not harp on his exotic past, drop names such as Dante or Machiavelli or refer to him as the Renaissance man. "I $ suppose where I came from can't be ignored," he admits. "But I am less struck by the anomaly of moving from there to here than others seem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A. BARTLETT GIAMATTI: Egghead At the Plate | 9/26/1988 | See Source »

...literary marketplace, "breakthrough books" are the ones that finally get what publishers like to refer to as the audience their authors deserve. Breakthroughs also mean big enough sales to justify past advances for all those critically successful though financially disappointing books that had to be remaindered. But not every good writer produces bulldozers. Anne Tyler has only dented the best-seller lists. She has a loyal following of reviewers as well as general readers. But one does not think of her as a breakthrough writer. After eleven novels, she just grows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: In Praise of Lives Without Life-Styles BREATHING LESSONS | 9/5/1988 | See Source »

...Herbert, 59, and Lamar, 56 -- heirs of the legendary Oilman H.L. Hunt -- commanded a combined net worth of more than $5 billion. Since then their fortune has plummeted to $1 billion or less, and it could keep right on shrinking until they are no longer "big rich," as Texans refer to the truly wealthy. The brothers are fighting a complex and heated battle with creditors to retain control of the two pillars of their crumbling empire, Placid Oil and Penrod Drilling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Big Bill for a Bullion Binge | 8/29/1988 | See Source »

...paralytic shellfish poisoning that probably passed up the food chain through tainted mackerel consumed by the whales. Carpets of algae can turn square miles of water red, brown or yellow. Some scientists speculate that the account in Exodus 7: 20 of the Nile's indefinitely turning red may refer to a red tide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: The Dirty Seas | 8/1/1988 | See Source »

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