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Indeed we shall -- and indeed we are, for the battle is already well under way. Seldom have the opportunities for riches seemed so great, or the risks of failure so daunting, as in today's rush to profit from the information revolution. It is a contest that goes beyond who will build and control two- way TV, toward a fundamental reshaping of the communications, information and entertainment industries...
Throughout his nine years teaching "Ec 10," Professor Martin Feldstein, who may well call this paradox a typical "trade-off," has seldom known what is going on down there in the 900-strong audience when he was standing in the dim light on the stage of Sanders Theatre...
...Lady in the Van," the centerpiece of Writing Home, is Bennett's memoir of a deranged woman who parked her car in his garden and stayed there for 15 years, until her death in 1989. If he did not always feel generous ("One seldom was able to do her a good turn without some thoughts of strangulation"), he always acted generously. To allow this radical intrusion in a quiet life seems the emblem of English accommodation. But, Bennett insists, "allow isn't quite the word. I was just faced with her-it was like Eleanor Roosevelt moving in! I just...
Sullivan, however, says he seldom visits themodern, commercial Square. When he does, he says,it's for a very practical purpose: "for my watchmostly."Crimson File PhotoStreet performers entertain crowds inHarvard Square...
Even positive trends are seldom entirely reassuring. Smoking is down among adults, though lung-cancer deaths continue to rise rapidly among women because they began smoking in large numbers less than 50 years ago. But teenagers, with their genius for perversity, are smoking more than in recent years. Should adult society shrug and blame Joe Camel, or hit the kids over the head with market forces in the form of a $2-a-pack...