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Approximately 3600 registered voters reside in the portion of the city of Burlington that Smith represents. "If a voter doesn't know me personally, he is apt to know a relative of mine," Smith said last week...
...snail's pace seems an apt metaphor for Tanin's plans to delay transition back to "full democracy" for at least eight years. Meanwhile, NARC's military bosses will remain as Thailand's real rulers, ready to step in if any civilian regime falters...
...what does this have to do with Harvard? The answer is that Kissinger is not unique--in fact, he is an apt symbol of the well-developed relationship between Harvard and Washington, D. C. Many other Harvard professors and administrators have accepted high government positions. In foreign policy, the list includes former U. N. ambassador Daniel P. Moynihan, and presidential advisor McGeorge Bundy, architect of the U. S. strategy in Vietnam. Similar connections exist in domestic social and economic policy. As Secretary of Labor, John Dunlop designed and administered a wage-price freeze that somehow was a lot better...
...both limited and noble, who becomes entangled in events far beyond his wildest imaginings, and who, in the final analysis, demonstrates a resiliency and inner strength which one gathers his father, for all his brilliance, lacked. The metaphor of the marathon runner, ever striving for greater fortitude, is indeed apt, and Hoffman has found a role which, with its moments of humor and of pathos, affords him an opportunity to turn in a performance strikingly reminiscent, in its portrayal of a character confused and bewildered, yet ultimately driven and determined in self-righteous fury, of the Dustin Hoffman...
There are an estimated 240,000 millionaires in the country, an infinitesimal sample when compared with 215 million people, but not so insignificant when held up against the 56 million families. It means that if a person is acquainted with about 200 families, one of those is apt to be worth a million or more. More Americans are brushed by such riches than ever before in history. If an annual income of $50,000 per family is considered the start of wealth, then 1 family out of 70 has reached that goal. If $20,000 a year can be considered...