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...media can belly-ache all it wants about deception by the White House. But, as the fisherman said, "It don't matter what bait you use if the fish ain't biting," and the fact remains that the press must be held responsible for the stories it chooses to print. Admittedly, the Administration acted wrongly and foolishly, but the press must share complicity in this public and foreign relations debacle...
...been critical of his own institution," says Hesburgh, "which you can afford to be when you're that good." Mary Patterson McPherson, president of Bryn Mawr, deplores the 1- to-20 ratio of women on Harvard's tenured faculty after a decade of coeducation ("Just deciding to educate girls ain't coeducation in my view," she snaps). Nevertheless, she admires Bok's administrative style. "He's managed to give real leadership in some areas of great importance," McPherson says...
...wouldn't get down the academic skills to do either. "Hell" is what he says he put his parents through. Born in Fort Monroe, Va., Earle grew up in Schertz, Texas, just 17 miles northeast of San Antonio. It was the kind of place Earle recalls in Someday: "There ain't a lot you can do in this town/ You drive down to the lake and then you turn back around." As Earle grew up, his own trips out of town got more frequent, the turnarounds longer. "I wasn't a bad kid, I wasn't gettin...
Usually this person will not say another word until the last day, when he shuffles up to me and growls, "You may be real good with them books and tests and stuff, but you ain't shit with a weedeater...
Light told the predominantly pin-stripe-clad crowd of about 300, "I think we ain't seen nothing...