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...road-touring rock band, they are usually enough to scuttle the career of most politicians. But Zhirinovsky is no ordinary politician. In the three years since this obscure Moscow lawyer careened into the national spotlight, his career has combined the shrewd manipulation of an instinctive demagogue with the abandon of a swinging Sybarite. Zhirinovsky has slugged fellow lawmakers in the halls of parliament, hobnobbed with ex-Nazi storm troopers in Austria and posed, au naturel, for photographers while cavorting in a steam bath in Serbia. He has been kicked out of or denied access to nearly half a dozen European...
...African Americans believe it would be better for ambitious young blacks, and everyone else, to direct their energies into legitimate enterprises, and most do. But one of the surest signs that an ethnic group is moving on up is that its members have developed the good business sense to abandon street crime for far more lucrative suite crime, which requires brains, training and access to important decisions from which blacks have long been excluded. Someday a black financier will have the power to commit a massive fraud that shakes stock markets around the world, get a slap on the wrist...
...just two years after assuming the deanship, Putnam was ready to abandon it to return to teaching and research...
...rarely has to worry where the next dollar is going to come from. As a result, faculty and administrators are insulated from their constituents--Harvard's students. When undergraduates make suggestions, register complaints or demand action, they often listen politely, offer encouraging words and then do little. Occasionally, they abandon any pretense of regard for student cocerns, ignoring requests or quashing them with a vote of the Faculty. More often, they dawdle around until students' four-year Cambridge life spans expire, secure in the knowledge that they will outlast each crop of student activists. As the apocryphal story goes, former...
Being in America can change a Candian--Prabhu says that now "I jaywalk with abandon and I interrupt with abandon." And in all of Harvard College, one might argue, there's no better training ground for interrupting others than the Undergraduate Council...