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...that of former mentor and friend, CEA Chairman Martin S. Feldstein, Summers seems almost out of place--as if he were back in Cambridge leisurely receiving a visitor during office hours. But as the 45-minute interview progresses and the public finance expert is constantly interrupted by a stream of telephone calls or colleagues asking for a quick bit of advice, the outsider is brought back to Summers' real present world of three-page memos, staff meetings, and access to some of the Administration's top policy makers...
...images revealed stream channels, broad flood plains and what millenniums ago had been great river valleys, some as wide as those of the Nile. Though a few experts speculate that the ancient and modern water systems were once connected, there is no supporting evidence. In fact, says McCauley, "the trending of the [ancient] rivers is to the south and west, the opposite of the present-day movement. It is possible they all joined up to one large basin of interior drainage as large as the Caspian...
...peculiarity of the academic profession is that it has no precise gauge for measuring success. Quantity is no-clear indicator: while one professor churns out a stream of papers, another may be hidden in a laboratory quietly curing cancer. As for quality, that is something only an academic's colleagues can judge, not his administrative superiors. But even peer judgments are imperfect in academia, suspect as they usually are to internecine methodological disputes...
...Dickie, as he is called, is in his second year at the University of California at Los Angeles; Tamsin is studying acting in London; Julie-Kate, who has yet to make up her mind, attends a coeducational private school in Hampshire. Weekends are busy, and there is a constant stream of guests. "You never know who you'll find there," says one close friend, Interior Designer Kenneth Partridge. "Larry will say, 'Who's coming?' and Joan will reply, 'Whom have you invited?' 'I don't know...
...deep slots of shadow, directly descended from late Le Corbusier. To this is added some invocation of palace and fortress architecture. The plan has a very strong sense of procession, and is designed to allow a large flow of visitors, estimated at about 1 million a year, to stream through its halls. Three of its sides look like an irresolute jumble of sheds. The fourth, facing the High Court building, is impressively coherent...