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...successor is Sunday Managing Editor Michael Janeway, 44, who joined the paper in 1978 after a decade as a top editor at the Atlantic and a stint as an aide to Secretary of State Cyrus Vance. Said Publisher William Taylor, whose family has owned and run the Globe since its inception in 1872: "Mike shares Tom's strong commitment to tackle the problems of the city, and has a lot of his sense of outrage." Janeway triumphed in a two-year power struggle that divided the staff. When word circulated last year that he might be the heir apparent...
...going to spend the better part of two decades searching for The Meaning of Life, it is an excellent idea to maintain your good nature while pursuing the quest. It smooths out the highs (the inevitable lamasery in the Himalayas) and the lows (a stint of hard labor in a French coal mine), and it makes the earnest pilgrim a lot easier for his friends (not to mention the movie audience) to take. Besides, playful self-deflation suits Bill Murray, who only did Ghostbusters in return for a shot at the second screen version of Somerset Maugham's most...
...dangerous rhinoceros, the people drinking absinthe, all seem to me creatures from another world." In fact, his stay there began the general pattern of migration southward that would be as obligatory for early modern French artists-Signac to Saint-Tropez, Matisse to Nice, Derain to Collioure-as a stint among the marbles of Rome had been to their 18th century forebears. Provence presented itself as a museum of the prototypes of strong sensation: blazing light, red earth, blue sea, mauve twilight, the flake of gold buried in the black depths of the cypress; archaic tastes of wine and olive, ancient...
Worry over the future of a small Statistics Department probably ceased when Harvard offered Donald B. Rubin a senior professorship. Boasting a string Ivy credits and a ten-year stint at the Educational Testing Service (ETS) in Princeton, N.J., Rubin adds a practical knowledge of statistics and a willingness to share his experience...
Under the leadership of Professor of Economics Martin S. Feldstein '61, who leads the course this year after a two-year stint as Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors, the course grew by 116 students over last year, when just over 950 students signed...