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Students in the incoming class applaud its diversity, and the school's effort to achieve...
Ever since the roaring critical and commercial success of The World According to Garp (1978), the arrival of a new John Irving novel has been an occasion for intense interest and sometimes febrile arguments. Irving fans applaud his jam-packed plots, his innocent heroes (the line from Garp to Gump is not hard to draw) and his overt, Dickensian sympathy for damaged or endangered children. Critics retort that Irving's heart may be in the right place, but his head is not -- that he actually exploits for shock value the very characters whose welfare he pretends to champion...
Media mavens were quick to applaud the mix of CBS and the tough, widely respected Diller. "He's probably the one executive," says analyst Larry Gerbrandt of Paul Kagan Associates, "that just about everybody in the industry would salute." Diller, a high-profile schmoozer to whom networking is both a pleasure and a job description, was quickly at ease in the company he hopes will be his big new home. The day the deal was announced, he called Evening News co-anchor Dan Rather for a chat and was escorted around the network's New York City broadcast center...
...applaud other countries with weak currencies and large deficits when they adopt austerity measures, sack bureaucrats and reduce the size of their government deficits. In places like Chile and Argentina, these harsh moves have begun to pay off in rising standards of living. But America continues to spend too much and to save too little, and the falling dollar is the world's way of canceling our credit card...
Like the humanities faculty, the government professors applaud the move to bring together their splintered intellectual disciplines...