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Eastern Advantage. For all that, the huge (6 ft. 7 in., 285 lbs.) Morton is not without defenders. They stress that he is an Easterner. Traditionally, Interior has gone to Westerners, who tend to be under intense home-state pressure to develop natural resources, not conserve them. In theory, Easterners...
Boosterism is dying in Arizona. Meeting at the Grand Canyon, an ad hoc group of 96 leading citizens called "Town Hall" voted surprisingly to stop spending public funds to attract new industry and residents to the state. Reason: a surfeit of success. While Arizona's 20-year boom has...
For much of the week the Northeastern seaboard flickered close to a massive power failure. The halls of office buildings, their lights dimmed to conserve electricity, were restfully muted, without their usual operating-room fluorescence. That was the best to be said for it. As power companies imposed "dimouts"-cutting...
Shattuck also said that if Harvard were to sell only the developed portion of the land and conserve the rest-as the protestors have suggested-it would make it more difficult for Harvard to sell the property.
Intellectual jousting has been a way of life for Bickel ever since he came to the U.S. as a 14-year-old immigrant from Bucharest. His family lived in New York City, where young Bickel spent most of his spare hours in the public library. "The ethos in our family...