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From the moment he became White House chief of staff, ERSKINE BOWLES has had his eye on the exit. This week he expects finally to depart for home and maybe a political career in North Carolina. "As soon as Congress is gone, he's gone," says a White House official...
The lecture lasted more than two hours, and dragged toward the end when Koch displayed the Wallace Stevens poem "Anecdote of the Jar" on an overhead projector to demonstrate some keys to reading poetry. Alarmingly, he turned Stevens' very sophisticated poem into a cartoon,delighting in the story of "this...
"There are too many variables--age,temperament," Lopez says. "This comes down topeople."
Whether he would have won at the next Olympics, we'll never know. What we do know is that Towne, a man of ruefully romantic temperament, has found a soulmate in Steve Prefontaine. In an article he once wrote, Towne made an implicit analogy between writing and running. Both involve...
So what, you may be thinking, does this mean to us, as Harvard students? Not much, right? After all, we're better educated than most. We could pass that test. That is, if we even wanted to become teachers. But there are better things to do--consulting, I-banking, lawyering...