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...derive enormous moral solace from believing that their self-interest is the same as society's interest. The success in the intellectual climate of the 1980s of George Gilder's Wealth and Poverty and Charles Murray's Losing Ground, two books which argue that helping the poor hurts everyone, bear testimony to the power of this sentiment...
...introductory note to readers in the first issue, Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III wrote, "You seldom have before you the complete text of policy statements that bear on college life. The Harvard College News, to be published four times a year, will attempt to address this problem...
...luminous accompaniments to the stories of Hans Christian Andersen and Edward Lear are classics of the genre. The French legend of Valentine & Orson (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $16.95) further enhances her reputation. Twins are separated at birth; one is raised by a king in a court, the other by a bear in a forest. The boys meet as antagonists, but after a series of picaresque adventures, become reunited and rewarded. This too is staged as a drama, enacted by rhyming players who evoke the best of Ingmar Bergman, Walt Disney and the artist-adapter herself...
Within hours, a Jewish student in the entryway had torn the poster down. When the Palestinian confronted her about the incident, the Jewish student responded "I'm sorry, but I just couldn't bear to see it there...
...move would almost certainly have been a disaster. It might have brought $30 million, maybe $35 million, according to informed sources -- a fire sale. And the results for the art market if the World's Most Expensive Picture lost a third of its value in a year did not bear thinking about. "The last thing in the world we want," a senior Sotheby's executive remarked to Edmund Capon, director of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, "is for that f------ picture to come back on the market...