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...keep the dollar at least relatively strong for a long time to come. But as the dollar pessimists of 1998 have discovered, exchange markets are so volatile that any prediction at all about what they may do should be made with crossed fingers and accompanied by repeated knocks on wood...
...mere existence of a $5,000 or $10,000 TV set isn't sufficient to persuade consumers to go into hock to get a sharper look at Dennis Franz's butt. Instead, people have stuck with pretty much the same box they had in 1980, with less wood paneling but more channels and more whatsits plugged...
...Saipan rather than surrender; the frozen bodies of American G.I.s massacred by German SS in the Ardennes Forest; the beaten carcass of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini hanging by his heels in a square in Milan; and, of course, the emaciated corpses of slaughtered Jews piled up like cords of wood at Dachau...
...dark wood-paneled, plushly-carpeted room at the Harvard Club of New York , President Neil L. Rudenstine announces that the University's Capital Campaign has raised $2.325 billion. The campaign is three months ahead of schedule and $225 million ahead of its goal, although the Campaign is stil short of its stated goals for the University's library system and its endowed professorships...
Underneath the Faculty Club "invitation," is a packet of information about the Harvard Club of New York. Not quite as open--I'd have to interview to join that wood-paneled and leather-appointed Harvard haven. But if I didn't make it, or as is the case, don't happen to live in New York, I can donate $25 to Harvard Magazine and receive a thank you gift of glasses decorated with scenes from the Yard. Maybe I'll put them underneath my diploma framed underneath a watercolor of Johnston Gate--the next offer in my pile...