LEAD: At the Harvard Business School earlier this semester, a group of students gathered around a table on the spacious patio of Gallatin Hall to drink some Harpoon Ale (itself both soothing and a prod, since it is a successful product of two recent graduates), and talk cases.

The Tough Job Of Teaching Ethics

LEAD: DESPITE the withdrawal of the developer of Penn's Landing, city officials say they are confident that plans for the 37-acre site along the Delaware River will go forward.

NATIONAL NOTEBOOK: Philadelphia;
Back to Square 1 For Riverfront

LEAD: Idaho State Penitentiary inmates are talking about a possible disturbance.

Inescapable Super Stress

LEAD: An energetic George Bush completed his first full day as President today with a flourish of symbolic gestures and conciliatory statements, including a renewed plea for the assistance of other countries in winning the release of American hostages in Lebanon.

Bush Starts the Job Briskly, and With an Open House

LEAD: GEORGE BUSH assumed the Presidency as one of the best known and least understood figures in American politics, a many-sided man who can simultaneously embrace rugged individualism and self-denial, praising in his Inaugural Address both ''the exercise of free will unhampered by the state'' and the virtues of ''duty, sacrifice, commitment.

Which Way Does the New Breeze Blow?

LEAD: The stock ''corner'' flourished in the age when it was every man for himself, and when insider trading was accepted as a normal practice. Corners grew rarer and less profitable in the 1920's, and were supposed to have disappeared entirely until a series of transactions made it appear that a corner is now in the works.

The Case of the Curious 'Corner'

INSIDE

LEAD: George and Barbara Bush had a few thousand folks over this morning to show off their new house.

The People in Thousands, Get a Look at Their House

LEAD: ANOTHER crucial period in the complex fight over the Shoreham nuclear-power plant will begin tomorrow with another missed deadline.

Shoreham Deadlines Come and Go

LEAD: THE Hardaway Group of Nashville, Tenn., has started pouring footings for Huntington Gateway, a major residential rental project in Fairfax County, just a half-mile from here.

NATIONAL NOTEBOOK: Alexandria, Va.;
Fairfax Getting 443 Rentals

LEAD: A STUDY by the University of Illinois on retirement housing has led to the construction of Avondale, a $100 million adult housing community in this rural Milwaukee suburb.

NATIONAL NOTEBOOK: Pewaukee, Wis.;
A Study Sires Adult Complex

LEAD: The 49ers play the Bengals today. Some of the highlights of the coverage are:

SUPER BOWL XXIII

LEAD:  HENCE  By Brad Leithauser.  320 pp. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. $18.95.

'PLAY THE MAN AND NOT THE BOARD'

LEAD: AN ad hoc Assembly committee has called hearings to investigate accusations that failures by the Kean administration to enforce a law creating an automobile insurance pool for motorists that private insurers refused to cover have contributed to an estimated $2.7 billion deficit since it began operating in 1984.

Auto Insurance Pool to Be Scrutinized

LEAD: The trade figures for November showed a sharp and unexpected widening of the trade deficit to $12.5 billion, from $10.3 billion in October. The cause of the increase was a surge in imports and a decrease in exports. The question for the analysts is whether the growth in the deficit is an aberration or a trend.

Prospects; The Trade Gap Widens

LEAD: Signs of strain and even suspicion have begun to surface in the relationship between Schools Chancellor Richard R. Green and the man largely responsible for bringing him to New York City, the Board of Education President, Robert F. Wagner Jr. Underlying the wary relationship is uncertainty about their respective roles as well as conflicting styles.

Strains Emerge in the Partnership Of 2 Who Lead New York Schools

LEAD: Gambling on the future of the commercial real estate market in central New Jersey, two developers in the area will start construction in Bridgewater next month on two three-story office buildings with 325,000 square feet of rental space. Named the Grande Commons at Bridgewater, the $60 million project on a 24-acre site on Route 22 near the junction of Route 28 is a joint venture of the Bellemead Development Corporation of Roseland and Claremont Properties of

POSTINGS: Moving Market; Westward, Ho!

LEAD: THE telephone buzzed again. ''You gotta take them all,'' Village Manager Joseph P. Fraioli said apologetically as he snatched up the receiver.

A Typical Day in the Life of a Village Manager

LEAD: GEORGE BUGLIARELLO, the president of Polytechnic University in downtown Brooklyn, seems happy now to tell the story of being offered his job in 1973 and turning it down at first, not because of the school's faculty, finances or academic standing, but because of the urban blight surrounding its campus.

Transforming Downtown Brooklyn

LEAD: IN a classroom on the campus of Fairleigh Dickinson University here, Dr. Walter Cummins challenges his students to compare the philosophy of Martin Buber with the ideas of other authors they have studied during the last two years. What would Buber have thought of Freud? Would he have agreed with the Romantic perceptions of

Fairleigh Dickinson's Core Curriculum Appraised

LEAD: When Tony Basinski found a four-bedroom house last July in Upper St. Clair, Pa., a suburb 15 miles south of Pittsburgh, he was worried that rising interest rates would price him out and keep him from closing on the $235,000 home on schedule on Nov. 30.

FOCUS: MORTGAGES;
Mortgages for Every - Well, Almost Every - Purse

LEAD: This essay has been given as a lecture six or seven times. I rewrote it each time, guided by responses, questions, letters after the lecture. I look on it, gratefully, as a collaboration with my listeners, my editors and all the writers whose works and words I pieced together in it - ancestors, strangers and friends.

THE HAND THAT ROCKS THE CRADLE WRITES THE BOOK

LEAD: A half century ago, George and Ira Gershwin, Cole Porter and Jerome Kern were frequent visitors to the 388-acre Dreyfus estate in southeastern Putnam County, now the subject of a proposal before the Town Board of Southeast to divide it into 139 home sites. The property features a three-story castle that evolved from an Italianate villa built in 1860 by Daniel Drew, the financier for whom Drew University, in Madison, N.J., is named.

POSTINGS: A Proposal for Putnam; 139 Homes for a 388-Acre, 1860 Estate

LEAD: It is a success story in the making, although Brian Shorter cannot be faulted if he doesn't always feel that way. Sitting in the bleachers overlooking the basketball court that was off limits to him last year, Shorter fielded questions that are as familiar to him now as the terms grade-point average and Scholastic Aptitude

A Proposition 48 Success Story at Pitt

LEAD: The visibility of the homeless has risen dramatically over the past three years, with a majority of Americans now saying they see the homeless problem at first hand and not just through the news media, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News Poll.

HOMELESS GAINING WIDER VISIBILITY

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Oscar Möller, Swedish ice hockey player

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January 22, 1989

Headlines from January 22, 1989

The Tough Job Of Teaching Ethics

NATIONAL NOTEBOOK: Philadelphia; Back to Square 1 For Riverfront

Inescapable Super Stress

Bush Starts the Job Briskly, and With an Open House

Which Way Does the New Breeze Blow?

Billboard 200

Don't Be Cruel

Appetite For Destruction

Open Up And Say...Ahh!

New Jersey

Hysteria

Notable Births

Notable Deaths

Historical Context for January 22, 1989