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Outsiders want in; they fill midtown's hotels and clot its traffic. Secular pilgrims, they trek to the Christmas tree in Rockefeller Center (and to its sibs at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in Trump Tower and at Lincoln Center). They see a holiday show: the Radio City Christmas Spectacular, which will attract a million patrons this year at $25 to $55 a ticket, or another family entertainment (the Big Apple Circus, Shari Lewis' Lamb Chop on Broadway). And they window-shop on Fifth Avenue -- a promenade that remains the city's most bustling theatrical experience...
...explanations of human behavior is not without its critics. "We have some links, but they don't prove cause and effect," says Dr. Donald Mender, author of The Myth of Neuropsychiatry. It's the same statistical quandary that basketball coaches face all the time. Nearly all great male hoopsters tower over 6 ft. 5 in. But that does not mean that all tall men are great basketball players. Says Mender: "The danger lies in seeing people as if they were machines...
Yale is nestled off Long Island Sound, rising, an oasis of dreamful spires, out of the pits of New Haven. There is something magical about Yale. It is a place where Harkness Tower rings out "Bohemian Rhapsody" across the entire campus, where lifelong friendships gel slowly over years of nights at Naples, where people of mettle are forged and sent into the world to act "For God, for country, and for Yale...
Cheng told a story about a scholar who applied for a National Institutes of Health grant in ethnic studies. "It was rejected and essentially called an academic tower of Babel," Cheng said...
...absurd for the statement to be made that public service at Harvard is just like athletics or any other area, because it affects people from beyond this ivory tower," he said...