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John J. Murphy

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A Chicago-Style Contest

T HERE are a number of reasons why Alderman Tim Evans didn't win last week's mayoral election in Chicago. The


Money the New-Fashioned Way

T HE anatomy of the recent leveraged buyout of RJR Nabisco by the firm of Kohlberg, Kravis, Roberts--helped out by


How Blind Is Justice?

A letter in my mailbox last spring from the Cambridge District Court told me that I had been selected for


Blue Smoke and Mirrors

H ARVARD, thanks once again to its vast stock holdings, is getting a chance to put itself at the vanguard


Growing Up Black and Poor in Chicago

A LTHOUGH I am white and middle-class, I grew up not far from the all-Black Robert Taylor Homes in Chicago,


Bush: Gimme Shelters

Y OU can tell when it's autumn because the wind starts to get a little bit colder, and there's a


Is The World Courting Disaster?

L AST year a TV station in Washington D.C. ran a special report on their news show entitled "Is God


Secret of Our Success

A MERICAN society has an obsession with "things," and the more expensive they are, the better. In the 1980 s


Stop Nixon Revisionism

R ICHARD Nixon has appeared everywhere the past few days. The April 10 issue of The New York Times sported