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Northeastern won the Freshman race 25-32, although Harvard's Dave Pottetti won his second straight race. Tom Spengler took fourth for Harvard...
...Island), finally as a customer's man and-after a return to Europe-as an investment banker. This could have been a simple immigrant's success story. But Strausz-Hupé, however frivolous his youth, had retained the gravitas of a European education. He met Historian Oswald Spengler only once, while dressed as Marc Antony at a Munich carnival, but he had read that master pessimist well...
...According to Political Scientist James MacGregor Burns, the conspiracy theory holds that "if something happened, somebody planned it." Schlesinger, on the other hand, believes in "the role of chance and contingency, the sheer intricacy of situations, the murk of battle." Schlesinger is also scornful of the "prophetic" historians-Marx, Spengler, Toynbee-who use "one big hypothesis to explain a variety of small things." Says he: "They" have reduced the chaos of history to a single order of explanation, which can infallibly penetrate the mysteries of the past and predict the developments of the future...
...Christmas day in the year 800, Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne a Roman Emperor. Philosopher Oswald Spengler dismissed Charlemagne's rule as "a surface episode without issue." H. G. Wells labeled it a poor copy of the Caesars. Although Charlemagne did not impress some modern historians, he did inspire the craftsmen and artists of his own era. This summer a mammoth exhibition of 700 Carolingian art works is on view in Aachen, Germany, the Emperor's historic seat of power...
...West is declining because it does not have enough servants. "Destroy the leisure class, and you destroy civilization," said J. P. Morgan, who defined the leisure class as those families who kept at least one "in help." J.P. will hardly be remembered as a dazzling social philosopher, a Spengler of Wall Street, but the question of leisure-what it is, who has it, and how to use it-haunts anyone who thinks about the nature of American life. The U.S. has created the world's first middle-class society, which enjoys (so it is widely held) not only spectacular...