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...this isn't a farewell column. Perhaps later in the spring, what I like to call my post-thesis season, I'll bring my windbreaker to Soldiers Field and write about baseball. Hell, I'll probably even visit Yale's field, the legendary birthplace of Roy Hobbes (that's what Colin F. Boyle '90 says...
...call this a post-business society, but predatory takeovers and greenmail are still with...
...city as we know it is obsolete. It is a 19th century product based on our 19th century ability to move people. Moving ideas and information then was more difficult, and the great inventions of the 19th century were the streetcar and the post office. Today we have an incredible ability to move ideas and information, but the movement of people is grinding to a standstill...
...towns so much as a congeries of ghettos -- the city is already becoming a place where only the very rich, the very young and the very poor live. The middle class works in the city but doesn't live there. Those enormous central offices we have built in the post-World War II period are, I think, very largely going to be counterproductive. The clerical work will move out. Our largest single pool of labor in the years ahead will be older people and part-time employees, and they aren't going to commute four hours to work. This...
...rest of the world, though, could be forgiven for suspecting that concern for the welfare of Panamanians weighed lightly in America's thinking about the invasion. The lack of interest, for example, in the Panamanian civilian death count has been shocking. The New York Times and Washington Post ran hundreds ^ of articles on aspects of the invasion. You would have thought that even the fact of uncertainty and confusion about the numbers, which were known to be in the hundreds, would be worth an article or two. But the first article addressing itself primarily to civilian casualties appeared on page...