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...announcement in a team meeting last Friday came almost four years after the controversial resignation of Hays' predecessor. Stephanie Walsh, who cited problems with the Athletic Department and Harvard men's Coach Joe Bernal as her reasons for departure...
...well beaten path to the wealthy with only a few small side trails to public service? Two popular explanations prevail. One hypothesis is that today's college graduate is less idealistic, more selfish than his predecessor of a generation ago. He lacks a social conscience and cannot be counted on to change the world. The other theory accepts this view but embraces it So what if the sharpest mind makes the best living warding off anti-trust complaints? Society, through the market, has decided it values this the most. In the circular logic of pure capitalism, "utility has been optimized...
...ever found. In fact, there is no evidence that ' the expensive devices worked at all. A Belgian count who sold them to Elf has vanished, along with the money. As a result, the leftist government of President Francois Mitterrand is accusing its center-right predecessor of lying and incompetence, an investigation has been launched, and the French public is savoring the oddest political scandal in years...
...Like its predecessor, Dostoevsky: The Years of Ordeal, 1850-1859 brilliantly combines biography with intellectual history. The essential facts are presented, but not a day-by-day chronicle of trivialities. Those who want to know how many logs the author piled in a fireplace during a given night will have to look elsewhere. Readers curious about how Dostoevsky translated experience into ideas and then into art can wel come Frank as an indispensable guide...
...Clark immediately moved to reassure the coastal states and environmentalists. Under his stewardship, he said, the Interior Department will seek to avoid the battling that characterized the offshore-leasing program in the past, even while it continues to pursue essentially the same pro-development policies as those of his predecessor. Said Clark: "We can work as partners...