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...CITY, by Leonard Gardner. A brilliant exception to the general rule that boxing fiction seldom graduates beyond the level of caricature...
...This economic index has meaning only in the context of a market economy and implies an acceptance of the status quo income distribution. Egalitarian goals are introduced at best on an ad hoc basis, and the human costs of rapid economic growth-the fracture of community, for example-are seldom considered. A companion objective typically assumed for poor countries, that of "political development." aims at little more than convergence with western political system. Thus, the conventional confines of the fields of study define a set of objectives, thereby inhibiting critical discussion of the goals of development and reducing consideration...
...CITY, by Leonard Gardner. A brilliant exception to the general rule that boxing fiction seldom graduates beyond the level of caricature...
PEERING at the world from behind gold-rimmed glasses and beneath a thatch of gray hair, Arthur Burns is a model of the modern professor in Government. He is seldom found on the Washington cocktail circuit, and perhaps with some reason. "Being at a dinner with Burns is like being back in the high school classroom," says an acquaintance. His manner is relentlessly professorial; even his doodlings while he talks on the telephone are architecturally precise. But he occasionally shows a dry wit; he has been heard to speak of one politician as "a gentleman and a demagogue...
...most powerful words you can use in a headline are FREE and NEW. You can seldom use FREE, but you can always use NEW-// you try hard enough...