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...your date right where you want him/her--at Bancroft Tower. With this medieval tower that was built in the 1940s behind you and the city in front of you, you are in a prime location for some Valentine's Day parking...
...President Clinton makes it clear that being in government these days requires a much stricter code of conduct than it did even twenty-five years ago. Nor does this code apply only to office-holders. The non-legislative approval process experienced by Bobby Ray Inman, Lani Guinier, John Tower, and others shows that trying to get into the top offices can be just as hard as being there...
...many, Harvard is an ivory tower collection of academics and students far removed from the rest of the world...
...they are almost entirely from dialogue, the novels of William Gaddis are like those scenes in a Robert Altman movie where everyone talks over everyone else while each tongue is tripping on itself. For A Frolic of His Own (Poseidon Press; 586 pages; $25), Gaddis practically rebuilds the Tower of Babel from the sounds and furies of the late 20th century. Drunken soliloquies, air-brained chatter and large, heavy blocks of legal gibberish are piled atop one another. One character is haunted by the thought that "reality may not exist at all except in the words in which it presents...
Coffey intended his speech to be a "wake-upcall" for Harvard first-years, he said in aninterview following the speech. "Most studentshere are in an ivory tower," he said. "We don'tkeep up with current events, we don't deal withproblems that face our society. If anyone can comeup with a solution, it's Harvard students--we'recapable of so much...