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...Massie and The 900 Days, Harrison Salisbury's account of the World War II siege of Leningrad. Last February, Biggs' weekly stock-market analysis included a quote from British Philosopher John Locke's An Essay Concerning Human Understanding: "He that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amiss...
...analysts, for a three-day Atlantic Conference '83 in Hamburg, West Germany. Explains Editor-in-Chief Henry Grunwald, who led TIME'S delegation of 26 editors, writers and correspondents: "We all know that the survival and strength of the Atlantic Alliance, military, political, economic, are of the utmost importance to world peace. We wanted to find some way to focus on these issues, draw new insights and offer some possible solutions...
...theirs is a sensible vision. The authors have taken extraordinary care in analyzing whether particular weapons or strategic policies are stabilizing or destabilizing under certain circumstances. Humanity, they observe, "must live with [nuclear weapons] carefully, vigilantly, gingerly, always displaying the utmost caution." Living With Nuclear Weapons bespeaks much the same prudent attention to detail that its authors would like to see among American policy makers...
...while continuing to gorge himself until he literally bursts. It sounds horrible. It is horrible. It is also extraordinarily funny. For the headwaiter, sublimely played by John Cleese, hovers fussily over a man who is, after all, his best customer while the rest of the diners do their utmost to keep small talk flowing and decorum intact. The result is a devastating attack on the human (or is it merely middle class?) propensity for maintaining the genteel amenities no matter how brutally reality assails them...
From his post within the administration--as an assistant to Jennifer Carey '78 who oversees undergraduate minority recruiting--Sanchez is doing his utmost to improve minorities' perceptions of Harvard. Starting with his own recruitment from his California high school, Sanchez, like Carey, has come full circle in the admissions process. He began recruiting students as an undergraduate, and today continues the search from the admissions office. "From the very start, I wanted to be able to give back to Harvard and the [Chicano] organization what they had had a role in giving...