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Pragmatism required, I thought, that I attend a technical college. My hand quivered a little when it wrote a checkmark in the yesbox on the MIT reply card. I dreamt in July that I'd move into Harvard Yard in the fall. Pleasant thoughts about wrought-iron gates, about pointless but titillating intellectual arguments and about a huge, well-financed library danced about in my brain, but disappeared when I woke up and remembered which school I'd chosen. It didn't mater. Prospective engineers...
From the construction-laden Revere Beach T station, the walk to the sand and water is only a short distance down--what else--Beach Street. Shelters and a gazebo, each decoratedwith ornate wrought-iron trim, invite strollers tosit a spell. The Boston skyline is less obviousthan at Wollaston. Unfortunately giant moderncondominiums looms over the beach, promptingmemories of Holyoke Center architecture that wouldrather be forgotten...
Ramos talks of emulating fellow generals who have wrought economic miracles in Taiwan and South Korea. Ramos is mindful that the region's economic miracles were due in part to the authoritarian control that other leaders exercised while they effected painful economic reforms, and that it is too late to impose such measures in the Philippines...
What those wondrous years wrought, as Bartley tells it, was the unprecedented creation of 18 million new jobs and a rekindling of the American spirit. The decade saw unfettered entrepreneurs create a revolution in communication that turned personal computers, fax machines and cable TV into home and office staples. At the same time, venture capital boomed and new stock and bond offerings blossomed. Bartley even applauds changes that took place in America's eating habits. "Frozen yogurt became a diet staple," he enthuses, "with estimated sales increasing 300% between...
...reflected since then, is that the suburbs control the nation's political destiny. Voters there will punish any candidate who would have them transfer tax revenue back to the cities. And even if the new suburban majority could be persuaded to agree to massive urban aid, the damage wrought by the shift of wealth and jobs to the suburbs might be too much for mere social programs to remedy...