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Lennon's death brought the predictable slew of tributes. In American, tragedy usually also means profit, and manuscript after manuscripts chronicling the Beatle legend found its way into print. Most, hastily written, were garbage. Thankfully, the editors of the authorities rock magazine Rolling Stone took their time and only recently released a collection of interviews with and essays on the most controversial Beatles. The Ballad of John and Yoko is a captivating work, at once passionate and thought out, loving and objective. And it features some of the best writing on rock to be found anywhere...
...share) horse-investment deals for years. Says she: "It's smart to pool your resources with a lot of other people. You can get in on eight or nine horses for the price of one." Every small-timer remembers that Triple Crown Winner Seattle Slew was bought by comparative newcomers for $17,500 and syndicated for $12 million. The Thoroughbred market of today, however, resembles the publishing industry: the blockbusters are fine, while the middling books are in trouble. The Wall Street Journal recently checked out 26 horse-investing partnerships formed in 1977-79. Twelve made a profit, nine...
...gains the advantage and could dispatch the Prince, but repeatedly chooses through sheer bravado to spare Hal and permit him to rearm Hal's combative skill is thus cheapened, and his eventual victory is made hollow, the result of mere chance. (It is, by the way, not known who slew the historical Hotspur...
...there is one representative per 75 students. Even at Cornell, with 12,000 undergrads, the Student Senate boasts just 30 elected representatives. During both constitutional conventions here in 1977-78 and 1981-82, a prime concern was electoral accountability, and the student politicos designing the structures have chosen a slew of council seats as the correct way to avoid communications breakdowns...
Corporations realize that engineers are the advance forces in the global battle for markets, and other countries are paying great attention to training these skilled workers. Japan turns out about 40% more engineers than does the U.S. A standard joke in American boardrooms is that when Washington passed a slew of environmental regulations, Detroit's automakers hired 200 more lawyers but Japan hired 200 more engineers. U.S. firms now seem to realize that they could use fewer lawyers and more engineers. -By John S. DeMott...