Word: smalls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years ago, he has been getting bigger. The growth spurt is due largely to the diligence of Robert A. Caro, the biographer and political historian who has made L.B.J.'s saga into an obsession and virtually a life's work. Caro is one of the best known of a small breed of long-distance writers who appear from their orbits of research to offer big books on big subjects. Among others in the select group, most of whom tend to be, like Caro, journalist-scholars: Richard Kluger, author of the civil rights classic Simple Justice (1976), and J. Anthony Lukas...
...reflections are triggered by a chance encounter. On a sabbatical in Italy, reading for a change rather than writing, the narrator wanders through Florence and comes upon a small gallery exhibiting photographs from Peru. One of them arrests his attention. It shows a group of Amazonian Indians arranged in a circle around a standing figure, who seems to have his audience enraptured. The spectator recognizes the name of the tribe captured in the picture: the Machiguengas. He is also convinced he knows the identity of the mysterious speaker. It must be Saul Zuratas, a close friend when both were university...
...small majority" of masters favor some degreeof randomization, Dunster House Master Karel F.Liem said...
...costs of health care are so enormous that any plan that attempts to extend benefits to only a small portion of the population will result either in placing an unfair financial burden on that portion, as was the case with the Catastrophic Health Care Act, or in the misuse of funds intended for other purposes, as is the case with the student health insurance program...
...three R's are reduce, re-use, and recycle, in order of preference," said Robert Gogan, a graduate student in planning and social policy at the Ed School. "Harvard generates 6500 tons of trash per year, as much as a small city...