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...tourists from Harvard students; as separates them from other rare beasts including okapis and Bengal tigers, they seem to create their own barriers. They watch from a distance as people walk through the Yard and try to tell the Harvard students from the simply mundane Cantabrigians taking a shortcut...
...this week Gary Bauer was catapulted into the first tier of Beltway players. He had the good fortune to be attacked by presidential candidate Bob Dole, who after last Tuesday's resignation is officially just a man from Kansas--but also a man who needs to find a shortcut from the right wing back to the center of his party. As presidential candidate Bill Clinton proved in 1992, the quickest route from your party's wing to its center is by attacking someone on your side. Clinton took on a little-known rap singer, Sister Souljah, incurred the wrath...
...SHORTCUT, by David Macaulay (Houghton Mifflin; $15.95), is a funny, silly and exceedingly complicated adventure (Agatha Christie would have rejected the plot as too intricate) that is just right for an alert six-year-old and a wide-awake parent. The gifted artist, whose books Castle and Cathedral brought medieval architecture to life, starts with a farmer and his horse taking a load of melons to market and winds up dealing with a runaway train, a lost pig, an escaped hot-air balloon and more. All logical, too, if your eyes are sharp...
Rather than producing a serious legislative program to improve the preconditions of Black success (e.g., good primary and secondary schools, freedom from criminal violence, and family stability), the federal government decided to take a shortcut, pressuring employers and universities to ensure an "equality of results" via employment law and federal regulations...
...never mind. If reading the works of 26 authors proves too arduous a prospect, Bloom offers a final shortcut for the canonically hungry: "Shakespeare is the secular canon, or even the secular scripture; forerunners and legatees alike are defined by him alone for canonical purposes...