Word: authorization
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...author's data, culled from persons "closely tied" to the active Catholic community, seems to have suffered serious reconstruction between the hearing and the retelling. This has led to confusion and concern in recent discussions about Catholics on campus. We the steering committee of the Harvard-Radcliffe Catholic Students Association (CSA), believe that this "history" calls for some correction...
Item: Salman Rushdie's death-defying novel, The Satanic Verses, sold 746,949 copies, putting this brilliant, difficult author near the neighborhood of Tom Clancy, Stephen King and Danielle Steel...
...truth universally acknowledged that folks are motivated by desire and ease, rather than self-improvement or showiness, when it comes to the private act of actually turning the pages. Hence, a formula that indicates what percentage of books sold are really read. The Fully Read Index , (FRI) equals the Author Comfort Index (ACI) times the Simple Prose Coefficient...
...Author Comfort Index (ranging from 10 to 1) measures the amount of egalitarianism generated by writers in their books. King, Clancy and Steel achieve highest scores in this category, and Robert Fulghum ranks near the top with a 9.7. They have mastered the trick of making their readers feel not only their equal but frequently their superior. On the other hand, Rushdie and Hawking are manifestly forbidding, the smartest guys in the class. Give them both...
...about it. When Democrats search for an overarching philosophy, they seem too dreamy- eyed. The last time liberals had vision -- the Great Society, the War on Poverty -- things didn't work out so well. Candidates like George McGovern, Walter Mondale and Michael Dukakis failed disastrously. Harvard's Robert Reich, author of The Resurgent Liberal, says, "I'm sure there are six liberals left in the country, but even I don't know who they...