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Boston residents have their own theories on why Bean Town jumped from 18th to second place. Harvard Social Scientist David Riesman (The Lonely Crowd) thinks that media exposure helped. Doug Flutie, the former Boston College quarterback, he notes, "is quick, brainy and made it on countless telecasts." John Updike, who lives in the exclusive suburb of Beverly Farms, cites the economic factor. "When I came to Harvard in the '50s, Boston was fairly grubby," says the novelist. "Now if you have the money, it's a nice place to live...
...calculated wispiness of Hardy's question reflects the unorthodox religiosity of the slender, unflappable scientist. Hardy says, "My heart is in the Church of England, but not my mind." He insists: "I do not think there can be any future for orthodox Christian beliefs." However, he thinks human spirituality has a great future. There is, of course, considerable skepticism about whether spiritual experiences can be studied at all with any degree of success. The late Philip Toynbee, a writer and critic and son of Historian Arnold Toynbee, wrote that Hardy's quest was the equivalent of "trying to catch...
Samuel Popkin, a political scientist at the University of California, San Diego, says the backlash "reflects a kind of deepseated fear and anxiety; it's like lynching in the South, a way of purging fears through extreme action against scapegoats...
...defensive policy would be wrenching, and Reagan's then National Security Adviser, William Clark, was loath to upset his "client" bureaucracies. Thus when Teller obtained an audience with Reagan on Sept. 14, ) 1982, Clark attended as devil's advocate. He posed skeptical questions that tended to undercut the scientist's presentation...
...when cities use revenue sharing to pay for local garbage collection, street maintenance, fire and police, rather than for capital improvements, health care, nutrition or housing, the program does not seem to be meeting its original purposes. Stanford Political Scientist Alvin Rabushka contends that city services in general have declined despite federal aid. "If we spent more and got worse--if spending increases didn't translate into better services--it's hard to prove that cutbacks will lead to any deterioration," he argues. That view may seem harsh to local officials struggling to keep their cities from sliding deeply into...