Harry Gordon
Tag Archives: oxford
Sport: Oxford v. Cambridge
At the end of a boat race one crew always sits up straight, breathing hard but smiling. That is the winning crew
Books: High Diddle-Diddling
THE CONFIDENCE MAN IN AMERICAN LITERATURE by Gary Lindberg; Oxford; 319 pages; $19.95 Con artists are familiar figures in American literature, though they are usually directed through culture's back door.
Nation: THE PENTAGON’S WHIZ KIDS
Though the ranks of the Whiz Kids in the Defense Department are proliferating, five stand out for the scope and strength of their influence:Alain C. Enthoven, 31, intense and dark-suited, looks more like a young college professor than a weapons analyst