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...patrol officers' case is another textbook example of a union's serving no one's interest but its own and the staff's falling sucker to pathetic advertising...

Author: By G. BRENT Mcguire, | Title: The Invisible Hand | 10/29/1993 | See Source »

...best stories in this book involve culture shock. Sometimes the shock is Merrill's, as when Dr. Detre explains that an Italian's repeated "Ti voglio bene" had meant not "I wish you well" (as it would in a textbook) but "I love you." At other times the culture shock is ours. Merrill inhabited, when he chose, both the inaccessible world of the super-rich (James Merrill's much-married father, Charles Merrill, helped found Merrill Lynch) and the world of young, well-educated gay men long before either Stonewall or AIDS. When Charles first suspected that James...

Author: By Stephen L. Burt, | Title: The Prosaic Reveries of James Merrill | 10/28/1993 | See Source »

...like to get started on TeX, which works on UNIX as well as PCs and Macs, I'd suggest two books: TeX for the Impatient, by Paul Abrahams, et al., is an excellent primer. For a complete description of TeX's functionalities, you should consult Knuth's authoritative TeXtbook. Both are available at Wordsworth...

Author: By Haibin Jiu, | Title: P.C. CORNER | 10/19/1993 | See Source »

Harvard thought it had created a two-goal cushion when freshman Kevin Silva deposited the ball into net after three textbook passes from captain Joe Bradley, freshman Will Kohler and sophomore Taadeh Sheriff...

Author: By David S. Griffel, | Title: Men's Soccer Defeats Maine Despite Lackluster Showing | 10/14/1993 | See Source »

...teacher received all kinds of assurancesthat our textbook would be in," said James B.Loeffler '96, a student in the class. ButCollege Yiddish has yet to make anappearance in Cambridge. In the interim, studentsare making do with Xeroxed copies as they wait forthe textbook...

Author: By Serena K. Mayeri, | Title: Students Search for Elusive Books | 10/9/1993 | See Source »

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