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Folly and Government, Tuchman's forthcoming book which she described at the Atherton Lecture, appears to carry this evolution to its logical extreme. Where Tuchman once proclaimed that "I am a disciple of the once because I mistrust history in gallon jugs," her new book will span 4000 years of legend and fact. Where Tuchman once wrote that "insistence on purpose turns the historian into a prophet" her new book is defined by purpose, its conclusions implicitly prophetic. And the 12 case studies, Tuchman uses to explore her question were explicitly chosen because of their conformance to strict criteria. Stated...
...correlated weight to longevity, taking into account body frame size. (This is determined by bending an arm at a right angle and measuring the distance between the two bones protruding on either side of the elbow; a 5-ft. 10-in. man with a 2¾-to 3-in. span is considered to have a medium frame.) The results of the study, says Dr. Paul Entmacher, chief medical director for the company, show "weights at which people live the longest. Only in that sense are they ideal or desirable...
...only another vehicle to attack it, soon to be filed away in the morgue of old newspaper stories next to past media scapegoats of the moment like Richard Allen and Ernest Lefevre. That may be true. The Wednesday resignation of Burford may lay this scandal to rest; the attention span of the public is short, and the media will soon latch onto another scandal. But what should not be lost amidst the political furor is the substantive concern that the EPA is--or should be--very important agency, not for political reasons but for human reasons. The government cannot deal...
Then BC effectively iced the contest, exploding for four goals in a 4:57 span, including McDonough's breakaway tally. The final goal of the offensive spree helped redeem, in a way, the frustrating Beanpot career of Eagle Co-Captain Mike O'Neil. In 1980, when the Huskies nipped BC in the final. O'Neil was on the ice for the decisive overtime goal, and was pictured in a widely-reprinted photo smashing his stick across the goalposts in anger after the winning goal. Now, with the BC offense pouring it on, he zoomed up the middle, took a pass...
After a power-play goal by Orlando early in the second stanza was followed by the Falcone-to-Martin connection, a tense 2-2 deadlock lasted for eight minutes. Blair robbed the visitors several times in that span, a 20-ft. blast by Randy Velischek sent the freshmen rolling pads over helmet, but stayed in Blair's glove. And at 5.35 Mitch Ofson made a spectacular diving stick check, flying into the net but saving a sure goal...