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Over the summer, I learned, to my dismay, that Harvard harbors plans to eliminate the venerable Busch-Reisinger Museum of Germanic Art; supposedly the flamboyant structure on the corner of Kirkland and Divinity Streets no longer meets "state-of-the-art" conservation standards. Anxious to verify this, I inquired of...
For more than two decades lonely reformers have waged a futile crusade to change the system. Even before John F. Kennedy appointed him to the Treasury's top tax post in 1961, Harvard Professor Stanley Surrey advocated lower rates, a simpler code and fewer deductions. His advice had little effect...
J.G. Boswell, a California company that is one of the largest U.S. producers of cotton, may collect nearly $20 million in subsidies this year, according to a preliminary estimate by the Sacramento office of the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service (ASCS), which administers subsidies for the U.S. Department of Agriculture...
She is as old as the century, but she keeps up with it just fine. Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, far and away Britain's favorite royal, carries out a daunting round of official duties, and just because she turned 86 last week was no reason for slowing down: two...
A major factor that will help keep the U.S. from being at OPEC's mercy, at least during the next few years, is that America's energy-conservatio n record is not likely to be reversed. Thanks to federal fuel-economy standards and competition from efficient Japanese imports, new U.S...