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...should come as no surprise that Harvard Square is known worldwide as one of the best places to go if you're looking to buy a book. Catering to academia's seemingly insatiable appetite for books, the Square boasts one of the widest selections of bookstores in the world, with 25 shops crammed into a few square blocks...

Author: By Brian R. Hecht, | Title: Catering to Harvard Consumers | 6/25/1990 | See Source »

...region but to the nation. The federal bureaucracies that manage them have too often operated under antiquated guidelines, framed when the forests seemed inexhaustible and man was oblivious to all but his own needs. Those agencies must reappraise their roles as custodians of the land and recognize the widest interests of the nation, not merely the most deeply vested. To place timber production above every other concern in this era of expanding environmental awareness is an abrogation of the public trust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Owl vs Man | 6/25/1990 | See Source »

During the three years that China's door was opened widest to the world, American Ambassador Winston Lord and his wife turned their embassy residence into an exciting salon for Chinese intellectuals. To the delight of those artists and academics who were regulars, these gatherings offered American films, disco lessons and a rare place to talk freely to one another -- and to their effervescent hostess, Shanghai-born novelist Bette Bao Lord. Well before the advent of the democracy movement in Beijing, she began recording their uncensored life stories. Back in the U.S. after the crackdown, she spliced them together with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Revolution in Many Voices: LEGACIES: A CHINESE MOSAIC | 3/12/1990 | See Source »

...following map, covering some of the widest territory of any of the archival maps found in recent years, was unearthed recently near the ancient meeting grounds of the early humanoid known as Homo Careerist. Dr. Kent Palmer, professor of precivilization business sociology at the University of Canton, has written that this map represents the clearest representation of the career possibilities open to our ancestors that we have found yet. Palmer has spent 15 years deciphering the symbols on the map, and he believes that the early careerists used different symbols to represent different possible futures. (Palmer also notes that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Career Form 89 | 10/20/1989 | See Source »

...would venture that the College has a special obligation to help expose students to the widest variety of opinions possible. Surely this is worth a small amount of extra clean-up per week...

Author: By Adam S. Cohen, | Title: An Open Letter to the House Masters | 9/21/1989 | See Source »

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