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Other departments this year heard from professors who saw no reason to leave their current posts to come here. Allan F. Gibbard, a University of Michigan philosopher, turned down a tenure, offer because of a "comfortable family situation," according to Department Chairman Robert Nozick, Mark Griffith, a classics scholar at Berkeley, rejected tenure at Harvard, explaining, "I like it here very much...
...Stanley & Co. Inc. and Goldman, Sachs & Co., last week started working on some overdue ways to self-regulate their business. One proposed rule, which will probably be quickly adopted, will require that all repurchase transactions involving members must take into account accrued interest on the security. Said Association President Allan Rogers of Bankers Trust of the new rule: "Most people have favored it for a long time." Better late, apparently, than never. -By Christopher Byron. Reported by Frederick Ungeheuer/New York
...loner with what would now be called sociopathic tendencies, a street fighter who looked on violence as the natural way to get what he wanted. Yet he was unquestionably intelligent. He read extensively in German, French and English and even wrote a novella in the style of Edgar Allan Poe. It is history's loss, if not literature's, that it was never published. Another work of fiction, an anticlerical novel, was printed and achieved some success...
...teacher named Susan Rachel Allan Seckler Turner is planning a scholarly study of "Twins, Doubles and Schizophrenia in the American Literary Imagination.'" She is a twin. So is her husband, Fenwick Scott Key Turner. And so is their creator, Author John Earth, whose fiction (including this novel) fits admirably into Susan's thesis. Could it be that characters create their authors and art generates life? What if everyone is really living in someone else's dream...
...Susan's twin sister Miriam pops up when the story needs her; she is still scarred from being raped by a motorcycle gang and tortured by the Shah's secret police in Iran. She and her current lover, a Vietnamese refugee, have an infant son named Edgar Allan...