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Three Harvard professors are among 91 scientists nationwide who received a $25,000 grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for 1989, selection committee members said yesterday...
...reason for the audience's discomfort may have been the theater space itself. The Kronauer Space, essentially a glorified basement space in Adams House, is not exactly what one would call a room with a view. The stage is set in one corner of the basement, and director Jackie Sloan makes no attempt to hide the humble surroundings. Decorated with rummage sale-like furniture, the set does not appear different from any of the other rooms in the Adams basement...
Directed by Jacqueline Sloan...
That may well be the way in which the gas tax becomes more attractive: by default. "Everything else is worse," says economist Lester Thurow, dean of M.I.T.'s Sloan School of Management. For instance, Congress will be loath to fiddle with personal income tax rates so soon after the landmark Tax Reform Act of 1986. And while additional "sin" levies on alcohol and tobacco will be an option, they would raise far less revenue than a comparable gasoline-tax hike. At the same time, a national sales tax would be a complex experiment that lawmakers seem unlikely...
...outfits: "I felt I had nothing to give anyone. So I gave a fashion show." Men, on the other hand, favor electronic gadgetry and tools, and picking up the tab at meals. Notes Janet Damon, a psychotherapist in New York and author of a new book, Shopaholics (Price Stern Sloan; $16.95): "They try to boost their self-esteem by buying an image of power...