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After making an impressive performance in the round-robin preliminaries, the spikers came out charging against the Chiefs, led by the strong serving of Brad Martin and Rich Rohan. The Crimson seemed headed for certain victory when, according to Martin, "the greatest choke in Harvard volleyball history" occurred...
...Influence of Rousseau upon Dostoevsky. Robin F. Miller, who divides her time between the RRC and a teaching position at Columbia University, just finished a critique of Dostoevsky's The Idiot. In her book, Miller examines the way the author manipulates his readers, forcing them to confront complicated moral matters. While working on the book, Miller became interested in Dostoevsky's use of confessions, a genre she argues, he adopted from Rousseau. "There are two passages in Rousseau which Dostoevsky returns to over and over in parodies and other ways. For instance, Rousseau used to wander the streets at night...
...Thus, if you've got a six-figure income, own an oil company or work for the Pentagon, you win. If you're out of a job, a student on loans, or a breadwinner trying to make ends meet, you lose. The President has created a perverse form of Robin Hoodism in which the government steals from the poor and middle class to give to the rich. The plan's rationale--that it will reduce both inflation and unemployment--is based on unproven assumptions like the much-disputed Laffer curve. Thus, if it is adopted, Americans are likely...
...loss squelches any hopes Harvard might have entertained about winning the three-day round robin tourney--they must win both of their remaining matches just to finish fifth overall...
That gave Bloom an idea: Why not distribute this money to poor people? After consulting with department lawyers, Bloom decided to play Robin Hood. He gave $1 million each to the Salvation Army, the National Conference of Catholic Charities, the National Council of Churches and the Council of Jewish Federations, all of whom help needy, handicapped and elderly people to pay their fuel bills. Says Bloom: "I realized that certain consumers of heating oil, especially those without lawyers and lobbyists, would be frozen out. These are the people least able to compete in the claims process. It seemed like...