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...York World's Fair. Bunshaft conceived his best and best-known work, Manhattan's Lever House, just as the United Nations headquarters, designed in large part by Niemeyer, was going up a few blocks southeast. Both men were the quintessentially Establishment architects of their generation. And, with success, both tended toward mannerism, became immune to tempering influences and got carried away with the thrills of go-go grandiosity...
Laws that permit federal authorities to confiscate criminal assets have been used with great success in recent years to hit Mafia bosses and drug dealers where it hurts -- in their profits. But the law allows government agencies to carry out "administrative seizures" that do not require the owner to be convicted of any crime. Police and federal agents in New York City and Los Angeles have been using that method to impound the cars of drive-in drug buyers whose purchases would bring merely a misdemeanor charge in court. U.S. Customs Commissioner William von Raab, who proposed zero tolerance...
...perestroika (restructuring) and glasnost (openness), the twin towers of Gorbachev's ambitious program of internal reform. It is crucial to him that the 5,000 delegates to the party conference represent what he likes to call "new thinking." U.S. analysts note that the Soviet leader has achieved remarkable success in shaking up a hidebound leadership. According to one estimate, during his three years in office Gorbachev has replaced 40% of the Central Committee, 90 of the 157 regional first secretaries and 72 of 101 members of the Council of Ministers. But his program is still being held back by party...
That brings me to a second point, about Ivy League athletics in general. The temptation is great, when an Ivy school is failing in athletics, to simply lower its standards and raise its winning percentage. That there is a direct trade-off between admissions standards and on-court success is a stark fact of life for Ivy League sports...
...nicest, most helpful members of the Harvard coaching community, in my experience, are clearly the two basketball coaches--Peter Roby and Kathy Delaney Smith. Kathy has finally found success on the court, hopefully Pete will not be far behind. Good luck...