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To be honest If don't like math that much, and the Abstract, though it calls itself a great statistical undertaking, isn't really that at all. The book celebrates baseball and the obsession that some of us have with it, and does it with unusual wit and intelligence.
But Veliotis may be more imprisoned by his obsession with General Dynamics. The son of a Greek shipowner, he was president of a Canadian shipbuilding company before joining General Dynamics in 1973 as head of its Quincy, Mass., shipyard. Rising quickly, he was appointed head of the problem-plagued Electric...
AT A TIME WHEN East Asian Studies, sushi bars, and visas to China are becoming increasingly trendy items, there reappears on the literary horizon an important and previously "lost" work whose intellectual voyage takes one back to the origins of the West's Oriental fascination. Raymond Schwab's book is...
What looks like an orgy, flirts with scandal, and sells like hot cakes? How about Obsession, the new fragrance from the guy who brought us women's jockey shorts, Calvin Klein, 42. "Who hasn't felt passion beyond reason?" asks Klein, who reasons that you do not have to go...
The obsession with the smallest detail of life, while rejecting a role for market forces and independent decision making, is both the system's political backbone and its crippling weakness. The chief beneficiaries of overcentralization are the nomenklatura, the 750,000 to 1 million members of the bureaucratic elite at...