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Sir: You have the point of Aesop's mice-belling-the-cat fable [Nov. 29] exactly backwards, I think. If the fable really offered "the best put-down of the narrow-gauge expert," as you suggest, the mice would have to be narrow-gauge experts at something. But what...
For all its apartheid repression, South Africa remains two crucial steps short of being a full-fledged police state. It still has an independent judiciary and a free, if often intimidated press. Now, in what promises to be one of South Af rica's hardest-fought court cases in...
A notable journalistic coup was its re cent interview with the shadowy Alfred Winslow Jones, father of Wall Street's current investment sensation, the hedge fund (whose profit-at-high-risk philosophy aims at taking advantage of both upward and downward swings of the market). Touches of humorous erudition...
The "real" man? In common with oth ers who have devoted much of their adult lives to politics, Humphrey and Nixon are like geological formations, created, stratum upon stratum, by deposits of history and evolution-their own and the world's-over decades.
Though Shanker's originally stated desire to protect teachers' rights seemed reasonable enough-the Ocean Hill Board had indeed treated union teach ers arbitrarily-Shanker appears now to want something entirely different. "Teachers have been castrated," he told TIME Reporter Peter Babcox. "Until now, teachers' organizations have...