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...remiss if I were to fail to mention one last symbol of power that I encounter daily on Park Avenue. Each day, as I wade through piles of second class mail, I am beset with magazines from Harvard, Yale and Princeton. The best and brightest of the past few generations are living well and are inundated with mail from their alma maters. Sadly, too many of the Harvard alumni show some sort of interest in me only when they learn that I go to their alma mater. Only then do I cease to be an automaton, only then do they...
...plane on a hot July evening, was so combustible that almost anything could have touched it off; that 970 other currently active 747s may be at some risk for the same catastrophe, especially when the air conditioning is overworked; and that, in Hall's opinion, the industry has been remiss in checking those planes for danger and researching ways to fix the tanks. According to papers released by the Federal Aviation Administration, the fuel tanks of 26 planes--13 civilian and 13 military--have blown up since 1959. By week's end frequent flyer and Senate majority leader Trent Lott...
Traditional religions no longer hold ground in our search for spirituality or a higher form of awareness. Does this mean that Christianity, among other religions, is remiss in providing for the spiritual needs of us mortals? The proliferation of alternative religions seems to indicate so. What will be the next group to leave us on this quest? We should brace ourselves for more surprises and hope that our capacity to be shocked, as well as our ability to recover from the shock, will remain intact. VICTOR SOLLORANO Geneva...
...what's that they say about learning a little economics being more dangerous than knowing none? I refer to "Reassessing America's Free Trade Policies" (March 13) by Bradley Whitman. With such a delightful list of dressed-up economic half-truths, one would surely be remiss not to take a bite! Or maybe, just...
...least one elected official, Reeves, says he thinks the city has been remiss in its efforts to hire minorities...