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Hmmm. Talent, friendship, strife, love interest, money -- it seems to have everything. Now there's uplift for you! We'll call it Andrew Lloyd Webber and His Amazing Technicolor Career. I think we've got a winner...
...times. The assertion that Steinsaltz is a once-in-a-millennium scholar is particularly remarkable coming from Katz, a leader of Israel's association of secular humanists. But the diminutive, soft-spoken Steinsaltz inspires superlatives from all Jewish factions. In recognition of his achievements, he has just been named winner of the 1988 Israel Prize, his nation's highest honor. The rabbi greeted the news with characteristic mirth: "Gee, one gets that a year before one dies...
ECAC Update: The Crimson's hold on first place in the league was bolstered Saturday when rejuvenated Dartmouth upset St. Lawrence in overtime at home in Hanover. Paul O'Hern's game-winner in overtime sent the Larries back to Canton, N.Y., with a winless weekend...
...began tumbling off into the unthinkable. The true unthinkable was that "Amerika," as those on the New Left dubbed it, was not merely mistaken or even bad, but evil. The mild unthinkable, entertained probably by most, was that the nation had made a bad mistake. Americans, who love a winner, detest thinking of themselves as losers, and they saw themselves distinctly as losers after Tet. Metaphysically, they may have thought that if America was a loser, God's grace had been withdrawn, or possibly was never there; the entire American idea turned into a fraud...
Late last week, after the Robins board of directors met for an extraordinary 5 1/2 hours on New Year's Eve and nearly six hours on New Year's Day, the company announced that the winner of the bidding battle was Sanofi. The second largest French drug company, which manufactures everything from Nina Ricci perfumes to pills that fight hardening of the arteries, will pay $3.08 billion. The price includes $600 million for a 58% interest in Robins and $2.48 billion that will be put into a trust fund to pay damages to Dalkon Shield claimants...