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...while there was massed clucking over the size of Reagan's fee and Ford's continued service on corporate boards, the Communist world was declaring the profit motive holy writ. Not let a retired President participate in capitalism and make a noble buck? That would be a sort of excommunication from America...
...International Version that is favored by conservative Evangelicals. Why the scramble to break into the microchip-Bible market? According to II Timothy 3: 16, "All Scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable" for believers. Obviously, computer companies are also hoping to turn a profit from Holy Writ...
That kind of shortsightedness, writ large, afflicts the entire globe. This year the U.N. Statistical Commission will undertake a periodic 20-year review of the way it monitors the world economy. The World Resources Institute, a Washington-based think tank, is urging the U.S. to press the commission to adopt a new system to take account of activities that harm the environment and thus to encourage policies that will save it. The opportunity will not arise again until the year 2010. By then, according to nature's own accounting, mankind may be environmentally bankrupt...
MILES: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY by Miles Davis with Quincy Troupe (Simon & Schuster; $21.95). An as-told-to memoir by a protean genius of modern jazz who played with Bird, Diz and countless other legends. With all the uglies -- drugs, booze, women betrayed -- writ large...
MILES: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY by Miles Davis with Quincy Troupe (Simon & Schuster; $21.95). An as-told-to memoir by a protean genius of modern jazz who played with Bird, Diz and countless other legends. With all the uglies -- drugs, booze, women betrayed -- writ large...