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...China is acknowledging that the best hope for these reclusive and mysterious creatures may lie in the unlikely locale of Baraboo, Wis. That is the site of the International Crane Foundation, operated by Ornithologist George Archibald, 38, the world's leading authority on cranes, who has had extraordinary success breeding the birds in captivity. Last week, in the company of a Chinese official, a pair of 4 1/2-ft.-tall black-necks arrived at Archibald's headquarters to further test his matchmaking skills. Says Archibald of the female Lan-lan (which means flower) and the male Yang-yang (sun): "They...
...Archibald Cox, chairman of Common Cause, told the committee that he found the ethics office's reasoning "incredible," "unbelievable" and . "frightening." Said Cox about Meese: "I still don't think he understands the appropriate moral standards." Still, it was Delaware Democrat Joseph Biden, once considered a possible Meese ally in the Senate committee, whose words most sharply stung the nominee. Declared Biden: "The Attorney General of the United States is supposed to be a beacon, a citadel of what young lawyers should aspire to. This office requires a higher standard, and you have demonstrated to me in your responses that...
...great traits is to set all the parts and people in working harmony," adds Archibald Cox '34, Loeb University Professor Emeritus and a friend of Bok's. "This University is made of a great number of different parts, and it is inescapable that these interests are going to conflict with one another. One of the great tasks that Derek does so well is to keep these interests working together, in harmony, in a progressive state...
...POINT is, though: indictibility is one thing, fitness for high office is quite another. It is disconcerting that no one except Archibald Cox '34 seems the slightest bit concerned with the fact that five Californians who had helped Meese out financially also happened to end up with federal government jobs. Or that Meese's explanation for why this happened is littered with contradictions...
Heaney, a visiting senior lecturer on English since 1981, follows the likes of John Quincy Adams, Archibald MacLeish, and Robert Fitzgerald in the Boylston chair, which was founded early in the 19th century...