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...intention of the History Department that sophomore tutorial be a place where students are introduced to the variety of historical problems and methods in areas where resources permit this to be done in a succinct and satisfying way and under the guidance of teachers who have both professional competence and genuine interest in what they are teaching. Certainly neither the Department nor, I am confident, the vast majority of Harvard undergraduates want the tutorial to become an occasion for ideological indoctrination. If this is what the author is suggesting, then he should be ashamed of himself. Steven Ozment Head Tutor
Boston College Coach Tom Davis has reviewed the allegedly fixed games anc has said he can find nothing to indicate that his players had done less than their best. But he and other college coaches no doubt shuddered at Hill's succinct summation of his scam: "Point shaving is sneaky ... Kids have made thousands of bad passes by mistake for nothing, so what was so bad about making just one more bad pass and getting paid...
Paper Money is clear, succinct and consistently engaging about the evolution of this embarrassing and potentially bank-breaking situation. The book is quite simply the best exposition of the subject available to the general reader. This is not surprising since Goodman, a former magazine journalist, financial editor and investment manager, writes about economics as a lively art, not as a dismal science. Here he is pondering the Big Bang theory of real estate: "Why should bricks and mortar, wood and paint, increase in price even faster than inflation? It is because not only is the currency diminishing in its worth...
...Bernie ("Boom-Boom") Geoffrion. From behind the bench, Blake schemed to stop such high-scoring opponents as Gordie Howe, Bobby Hull, Phil Esposito and Stan Mikita. So when it comes to evaluating hockey's newest natural wonder, the New York Islanders' Right Wing Mike Bossy, Blake is succinct: "Why is Mike Bossy great? That's easy. He scores goals...
That is the most succinct and accurate explanation of what is described as Cabinet Government: a President and a Secretary working together with no in-betweens. Ickes knew Roosevelt's heart and mind and devised brilliant policy innovations within that framework. The Secretary battled adversaries, wooed friends, took sweeping bows for success, the kicks in the pants for mistakes, argued vehemently at times with Roosevelt but in the end loved the President and his cause beyond himself. Roosevelt knew it and honored him. Ickes took few orders from underlings...