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Larsen Librarian of Harvard College Richard De Gennaro commissioned architectural plans for a revamped Gov Docs workspace, which would fill Lamont's seldom-used first floor reading room. The project would cost between $400,000 and $500,000, and would come from building reserves and other funds...

Author: By Ira E. Stoll, | Title: Of Drums, Bells, Bills, Waves, Whales, Doughnuts and Donations | 9/18/1992 | See Source »

Larsen Librarian of Harvard College Richard De Gennaro commissioned architectural plans for a revamped Gov Docs workspace, which would fill Lamont's seldom-used first floor reading room. The project would cost between $400,000 and $500,000, and would come from building reserves and other funds...

Author: By Ira E. Stoll, | Title: Of Drums, Bells, Bills, Waves, Whales, Doughnuts and Donations | 9/16/1992 | See Source »

...surprising that Shevardnadze has seldom had a day off since he returned last March to the small Caucasian republic where he ruled as Communist Party boss before Mikhail Gorbachev summoned him to Moscow in 1985. At a time in life when other senior statesmen would be content to write their memoirs, the 64-year-old diplomat has embarked on the riskiest mission of his career: bringing peace and stability to his homeland. There he daily faces more violence than he did as a major player in the cold war, as Georgia is beset by ethnic rebellions in the independence-minded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Time for Diplomacy | 9/14/1992 | See Source »

...often do we see the aching emptiness, the joyless despair that so often follows sex without commitment? And certainly there is too much violence. It desensitizes its viewers to the horrors of actual violence and implies that it is an effective way to resolve conflict. I seldom see the dehumanization that violence produces, not only in its victims, but also in its perpetrators. And I never see the nonviolent alternative -- the way of dialogue and love -- explored. Jesus has much to teach us here. So do Gandhi and Martin Luther King. Ninety-four percent of the American people believe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TV Could Nourish Minds and Hearts | 9/14/1992 | See Source »

Playing singles, George Bush seldom won on the tennis courts of the Houston Country Club, even back in the early '60s, when he was young and fast. He had no backhand, and his serve was worse -- "the falling leaf," he called it. But Bush compensated. He chose as his partner a lawyer from a distinguished Texas family, who just happened to have been captain of the varsity team at Princeton. With the polished James Addison Baker III at his right side, the southpaw Bush was able to emphasize his strengths: his forehand, quick reflexes at the net and steadiness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: George Bush: The Fight of His Life | 8/24/1992 | See Source »

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