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Above all, it was brave of Harling to place at the center of what might otherwise have been an episodic comedy the true, tragic story of his sister, a diabetic who doomed herself to early death in order to bear a child, and his mother's struggle to come to terms with that choice. It gives the piece the dramatic focus and the emotional weight it requires...
...nothing wrong, so he refused to cut a deal. The Justice Department was irritated, to put it mildly. Far from having the IRS handle this as a regular tax case, or even as a criminal tax case, Justice brought the full force of the controversial racketeering statute, RICO, to bear. All this over a relatively small number of tax dollars...
...with a disreputable reputation. America is in decline because of American managers who only care about their short-term gains so that they can boast about them at the next shareholders' meeting. Japanese managers use shareholders' meetings to explain their long-term plans and ask shareholders to bear with limited dividends. Japan has succeeded in rebuilding its economy because it has kept its idiosyncrasies, that is to say, management philosophy, labor- management relations and company-shareholders relations based on humane feelings. We don't have to change those characteristics just to please the Americans...
Weird or not, it doesn't appear that the Harvard students' affection for their West Coast role models--however unrealistic they may be--is fading. Thursday nights in Harkness Commons bear that...
...fact is that in New Hampshire, it is hunters, not bears or deer or moose, that are troublesome pests. For most of the fall, shooting of some kind is legal, and while I am willing to risk a peppering of bird shot, I don't want to be hulled by the antitank ammunition used for bear or moose (59 moose no longer menace us as the result of a recent three-day shooting season). So most of us stay out of the woods during the year's most beautiful season. Once, during deer season, I rounded a turn...