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Recent graduates say that these growing numbers reflect K-School alumni's strong commitment to public service, although they add that the burgeoning Harvard presence also stems from more career-oriented concerns.

Author: By Susan B. Glasser, | Title: Taking the Fast Track to the Beltway K-School Grads Head for the Hill | 9/17/1987 | See Source »

As a spymaster with the Office of Strategic Services during World War II, William Casey was an action-oriented operator who dropped agents behind enemy lines. As Ronald Reagan's director of Central Intelligence 40 years later, Casey chafed at Washington's restrictive atmosphere. That, says a subordinate, & was one...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Out in The Cold | 9/7/1987 | See Source »

Cyr says that while Sullivan and his fellow independents may oppose rent control, they have never been serious enough to try to abolish it. They knew that their blue-collar ethnic constituencies wouldn't stand for it. But Walsh was different. Walsh was the businessman's candidate, and he has...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reining in Blue Collar Workers | 8/18/1987 | See Source »

To exploit that market, software houses are busy developing adult-oriented games that are more sophisticated than Pac-Man and Donkey Kong and can be played as easily on a keyboard as with a joy stick. Programmer Crawford's current best seller, for example, is Mindscape's Balance of Power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: Games That Grownups Play | 7/27/1987 | See Source »

And so the draw of pre-professionalism skews the consciousness of the new generation. Trapped in a goal-oriented society, today's would-be Renaissance Man often sacrifices perspective for high-level performance in a chosen field.

Author: By Jessica Dorman, | Title: Staring at the World From the Other Side | 7/17/1987 | See Source »

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