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There is the trace of the fighter in the face of Donald Regan, the urbane stockbroker polished by the Cambridge Latin School and Harvard. But nevertheless there are the wary eyes, the cleft chin, the crooked nose. It goes even deeper. Inside there are the battle traces from Guadalcanal, Bougainville, Guam and Okinawa. He admits it. "No training for anything except fighting," he says, recalling 1946, when he left the Marines to take on Merrill Lynch. He won that engagement too, rising to the jobs of president in 1968, chairman in 1971. Now he is sitting in the large, sunny...
Given this finding, even the most stolid anthropologist could construct a story of suspense and revelation. But Johanson and Co-Author Maitland Edey are no standard scientists. Like polished mystery writers, they trace the many searches for origins and review the rivalries that have driven such scholarly sleuths as Louis, Mary and Richard Leakey. Since Johanson is driven by the same combination of curiosity, daring and egotism, Lucy is both enlivened and marred by a lack of objectivity. Johanson is convinced that he is now in sole possession of the truth about human roots-and perhaps...
Corporation members recently claimed to be unable to provide an estimate for how much money Harvard lost on its Citibank sale. "You simply can't trace a single dollar through Harvard's portfolio," Lawrence F. Stevens '65, secretary to the Corporation's Committee on Shareholder Responsibility, said last week...
...doubly ironic that these same Corporation members now say they can trace dollars through South Africa's portfolio. The Corporation should take the only honest and "humanitarian" step--complete divestiture of stock in companies that do business in South Africa...
...angelfish would do it), but what preserves the balance and tightness of Pfaff's work is her daring, uninhibited sense of abstract form. Those squiggles and meshes, bits of screening, Mylar and Day-Glo plastic work together beautifully as aerial handwriting. In her work there is not a trace of the hesitation and nostalgia, the feeling of being becalmed, that gave the '70s their grayish tone. A few more artists like her, and the '80s might be an interesting decade...