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Harvard has tied last year's feat of sendingsix students to Oxford on the Rhodes Scholarshipprogram. This year, Yale and Princeton can onlyclaim one Rhodes Scholar each...
...that he was trading in a contrivance that had been in the family for only 140 years or so. Later research by cousin Lewis Baratz (a roots maven) discovered that circa 1800 our antecedents in the Jewish pale went by Ben Reb Tzadik (Son of the Master Scholar). Apparently there was an earlier pedagogue in our crowd. For tax purposes or other bureaucratic reasons, the authorities in a few countries around 1810 ordered Jews to give up generic Hebrew titles. Like all Diaspora Jews over the centuries, the first Baratz did what seemed necessary to adapt, adding vowels...
CREATE A SIEGE MENTALITY It is now obvious that the Rhodes scholar turned President likes to pull all-nighters and actually performs best when his presidential prestige is at stake. Early in the year, White House officials insisted that the helter-skelter quality of the place would even out over time and eventually resemble other presidencies. But the line has changed, and officials now realize that Clinton does best in an atmosphere of siege, likes to make enormous changes at the last minute, and takes some comfort in knowing that however bad it might seem now, it was even worse...
Frank Sulloway, a visiting scholar of science history at M.I.T. and a longtime critic of Freud's methods, takes a somewhat more apocalyptic view: "Psychoanalysis is built on quicksand. It's like a 10-story hotel sinking into an unsound foundation. And the analysts are in this building. You tell them it's sinking, and they say, 'It's O.K.; we're on the 10th floor...
...addition to his well-stuffed Rolodex, McAllister brings to his job considerable expertise. A summa cum laude graduate of Yale (where he specialized in American diplomatic history), he went to Manila as a Luce scholar and to London as a Marshall scholar, earning a Ph.D. in history and writing the memoirs of U. Alexis Johnson, a former Under Secretary of State. He returned to Yale for a law degree, clerked for a federal judge in San Francisco and worked as a corporate lawyer in New York City -- but kept being drawn back to journalism, reporting...