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They were kindred minds as well as spirits. On a vacation to Brazil, he took James Watson's 1,100-page textbook, Molecular Biology of the Gene, and they studied bioengineering together. On another vacation, to a Santa Barbara, California, ranch, she took tapes of Richard Feynman's lectures at Cornell, and they studied physics. And on a larger excursion with friends to central Africa, which ended at some beach cottages on an island off Zanzibar, among their companions was anthropologist Donald Johanson, known for his work on the human ancestor Lucy, who helped teach them about human evolution...
...author of the well-known development text, Economics of Development, Roemer was also an established academic. In addition to the textbook, he co-edited several volumes focusing on reform of economic systems and the application of Asian development lessons on African economies...
...certain to convulse them in a few weeks or months. Now if the Hutu militants have lost their control, there may no longer be any humanitarian crisis in Zaire requiring international military response. That is fortunate for the refugees, but it adds yet another complicating lesson to the evolving textbook on what can be done to provide real help when victims of unrest stir the world's conscience...
...specter of economic retaliation--and the fact that Texaco executives were caught red-handed using racially insulting language as they discussed the destruction of evidence--that motivated Texaco chairman Peter I. Bijur to perform the most spectacular flip-flop since Kerri Strug's Olympic showstopper. In a textbook feat of corporate damage control, he agreed last week to spend $176 million to end the lawsuit filed by black employees whom Texaco has been stonewalling for years. The pact contains the most lucrative settlement ever of a U.S. discrimination case. If wholeheartedly implemented, it could transform Texaco from a bastion...
...honesty, I must admit that I have been part of the problem. For the past two years, as an Undergraduate Council representative, I have tried to address numerous problems, ranging from important issues of personal safety to somewhat less important issues such as calendar reform, Coop textbook pricing and policies for postering on campus. All of these seemed very important at one time. During my first year, I had decided that I would make it my own personal crusade to reform Harvard's academic calendar, that the administration would listen to us because we were right, that we would make...