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Articulate and quick to quote theorists, statistics and court decisions, Anderson can discourse for hours on the evils of abortion, promiscuity, affirmative action, dovish military policies, women in combat, overtaxation, overspending, overregulation and the "intolerance of the left...
Tremont House, formerly the Quality Inn, Boston, Mass.: Harvard provided a $13 million mortgage for this property on the edge of the combat zone. As part of the deal, Harvard gets 50 percent of the hotel's receipts...
...credit, Bush has already taken several steps that will help combat global warming. Among other things, the White House has 1) earmarked $1 billion for global climate research next year; 2) committed the U.S. to phasing out production of chlorofluorocarbons, potent greenhouse gases, by the year 2000; and 3) vowed to plant a billion trees, which would absorb CO2 from the air. But Administration officials admit that Bush advanced most of the measures for reasons other than reducing global warming. And environmentalists argue that the Government should do much more to discourage the burning of fossil fuels. Among the possibilities...
Most days Hartman is in the thick of it. Invariably dressed in a windbreaker and running shoes, he prowls the classrooms eager for combat. Heated debate is the norm at Hartman's place. Eavesdrop long enough and you will likely hear an eclectic collection of world-class brains clinch philosophical arguments by telling one another they're "full...
...have no idea. But from the beginning this case has involved what people now call combat public relations by Milken's defenders and enemies at levels that I think are unseemly. And I'm disturbed that while the gods are up there fighting, Drexel has gotten swept into it in ways that are reasonably horrifying...