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The first rule of Harvard politics has six words: Every tub on its own bottom. ("Tub" refers to each of Harvard's nine schools. This system dictates that each school manages its own affairs, giving deans both ultimate power and responsibility.)
A Wall Street acquaintance I'll call Martin J. Kashfleau, whose life sometimes seems dominated by what he refers to as "tax implications," has worried all summer about how he can take advantage of more than just the capital-gains provision of the tax-reduction package. So far, he's...
In terms of the climate machine, El Nino is more than just a sudden warm current off Peru. It refers to a rise in sea-surface temperatures over much of the equatorial Pacific as well as a change in winds and ocean currents. Indeed, there is a kind of climatic...
The show is clearly the product of two minds that have clocked a fair number of hours watching the work of Mike Judge (Beavis and Butt-head) and Matt Groening (The Simpsons). The four main characters--Cartman, Kyle, Stan and Kenny--have grating voices and feeble minds and show no...
Not that a few wacko cyclists were the only irrational people in this mess. The wizards at city hall inflamed the situation by sending out battalions of police in riot gear. They arrested more than 100 cyclists, including some peaceable ones who were just trying to point out that the...