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...review applications for its spring grants. SAC members are currently setting new guidelines to make their grants process more fair. Their plans might yield some mildly helpful bureaucratic changes. Far more important, though, is a set of new ideological guidelines--something The Foundation clearly lacks. Any attempts to fine-tune the current grants process would ignore the larger problems that plague...
...defiantly rejected calls for his resignation. Even as late as December, he claimed to have the complete backing of his board of directors. But at an acrimonious board meeting last week -- the first since the company reported a record loss of $5 billion for 1992 -- Akers changed his tune. After an emotionally charged meeting with the seven members of the powerful executive committee, Akers, 59, informed the fully assembled board of his decision to step down...
...Sarah, Jacob was the one who had to put his past in perspective; this time, the drought forces his wife to take a similar journey. Unfortunately, the trip is uneventful. As agreeable as it is, this visit seems less a sequel than an installment. If only one could tune in again next week for another, perhaps more dramatic, episode...
...could stop singing Don't Stop? (David Letterman's advice to Fleetwood Mac: "Stop!") That catchy jingle was the only tune on America's mental jukebox last week, when movie and music stars descended on Washington in numbers not seen since the bond drives of World War II. The whole wide world of American tinsel and twang -- Oprah Winfrey, Little Richard, Kenny Rogers, Bill Cosby, Kathleen Battle, Macaulay Culkin, Harry Belafonte -- showed up, swelling the Rat Pack of John F. Kennedy's day to Hamelin proportions, offering its best wishes to a new Administration. Chuck Berry updated the lyrics...
...noise, as there is for daily lives. There is a place for roaring, for the shouting exultation of a baseball game, for hymns and spoken prayers, for orchestras and cries of pleasure. Silence, like all the best things, is best appreciated in its absence: if noise is the signature tune of the world, silence is the music of the other world, the closest thing we know to the harmony of the spheres. But the greatest charm of noise is when it ceases. In silence, suddenly, it seems as if all the windows of the world are thrown open and everything...