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...Denver, looked out from his urban redoubt on the edge of the plains and declared the advent of an "archipelago society." Modest to small cities are sprinkled across great washes of sparsely populated land, the tiny towns nearly dead, ranches getting bigger. The surviving communities are oases that offer services and cultural amenities for the surrounding areas. Mathers foresaw that intuitively when he arrived 40 years ago. Except for a short spell at first, he has lived in Miles City and driven to and from his ranch 25 miles away...
...SOME offer the standard argument that first-year students gain coddled, preferential treatment for courses: they have first-year seminars and receive occasional favoritism in Core lotteries. But these small perks are the exceptions that prove the rule. The academic system for Harvard undergraduates seems designed to frustrate intellectual curiousity and to keep first-year students safely in monstrous, impersonal, general introductory classes and exclusively first-year classes like Expository Writing and seminars...
...rest of the cast of newcomers, unfortunately, do not offer equally electric performances, but they are invariably solid. Clements, if not inspired, is able as Tom. And Carolyn Farina is convincing as his well-read, occasionally insipid love interest Audrey. Taylor Nichols gives the strongest supporting performance as Charlie, the thoughtful pessimist who forever wonders if members of the "urban haute bourgeoisie" are doomed to (relative) failure...
Last November New Yorkers turned to Dinkins in the hope that the cautious and gentle veteran clubhouse politician would heal the rifts among them and offer a modicum of racial peace. "A Gorgeous Mosaic" became the 63-year-old grandfather's metaphor for his divided city, and he pulled together an ethnically diverse electorate to become New York's first black mayor by a narrow margin. Dinkins has named more minorities to top-level staff positions than any mayor before him and has drawn on a national pool of talent to fill posts in his administration. With little fanfare...
...Analysts offer different estimates of how long food supplies might last, though most agree that no Iraqis will be malnourished for at least a year. Even then, food will not provide the strongest lever for pushing Iraqi troops out of Kuwait. Iraq had a bumper wheat harvest this year and is seasonally self-sufficient in many fruits and vegetables. Much more of the country can -- and no doubt will -- be used to grow food...