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Letter to My Mother, one of the products of this new labor, has appeared in English, so that we can now begin to assess the "new Simenon." Actually, it is a question of reassessing the old hackneyed Simenon, for nothing has really changed. Letter to My Mother is a new sort of detective story, a kind of confessional mystery, predicated on the notion that human relationships are indeed hard to understand, that they take time to decipher, are full of profound feelings, etc. Unfortunately, this new kind of puzzle isn't nearly as interesting as a good murder mystery...
...POSSIBLE to assess certain responsibility for the eviction of six South House students by the House masters and the administrative board at the height of the fall term exam period. It is still unclear whether the masters' and ad board's decision was arbitrary and disproportionate to the offenses--this appears to be true so far, since those involved in the decision to evict have refused to explain the decision to the students. But the incident points up much more than the faults of individual administrators or students; it demonstrates execrable problems with the administration housing and student discipline...
...billed as the most important speech of Gerald Ford's presidency-or his career. In his annual State of the Union address to Congress this week, Ford hoped to do much more than assess America's strengths and weaknesses and outline his legislative program for the coming year. The speech was designed as a campaign platform, a document that would help overcome his image as an indecisive leader. It was also crafted to help Ford in his neck-and-neck race with conservative Ronald Reagan for the Republican nomination...
...that change would be more effectively accomplished by nominating students to serve on the CRR, who could then work for that same change. Such a group "within the system" would possess several significant advantages over a group "from without." First, the inside group would more adequately be able to assess what actually goes on inside CRR meetings. In the unlikely event that CRR ever did meet, those on the outside are barred from attending the meetings; CRR members are not. More importantly, however, I believe that greater commitment and continuity would be evidenced in a group selected to serve...
...professor of public systems management at Columbia University. "The budget can be cut," he says, "but it doesn't follow that services must be diminished relative to that cut." Carter Bales, a partner of McKinsey & Co., a management consultant firm, urges the creation of an independent agency to assess the productivity of city departments. "That would scare the living hell out of the managerial bureaucrats," says Bales. If an agency fails to measure up, its work can be contracted out to a more efficient private organization. Beyond that, the city must stop trying to be all things...