Word: authority
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Jerry Doolittle is an Expository Writing instructor and the author of four books, of which three are non-fiction. He was a speechwriter for both President Jimmy Carter and Democratic Presidential candidate Walter Mondale, and was a reporter for several daily newspapers. In 1971, he resigned as press attache in the United States Information Agency's Vientianne, Laos office in protest of American policy in that nation...
...firm, Abt Associates, which is the largest and most successful social research firm in the nation. The firm, which is one of the largest employers of professorial persons in the city, has a commendable record in the employment of minorities, women and Blacks, in executive positions. Clark Abt, the author of half a dozen books, has had wide experience in the evaluation of health programs, job training, defense and other areas of social concern...
...Harvard student of Chinese ancestry, I would like to comment on your recent article on Asian Americans at Harvard ("The Asian Quandary," October 27, 1986). First, I commend the article's author, David M. Lazarus, on the journalistic spirit in which he carried out his research. The issues of Asians Americans at Harvard are very broad and potentially controversial, yet any reader of his work can tell he made a sincere effort to objectively summarize the major idea of his topic...
...correct the author of these generalities, most Asian Americans are not in a quandary. The Asian Americans who face the "tensions between two cultures" spend as much time worrying about it as the average Harvard student worries about his or her acne problem. What "Of Orgo and Medical School?" The decision of whether or not to go pre-med is one faced by hundreds of Harvard freshmen and sophomores, and believe it or not, the majority of them are not from Chinese, Japanese, or Korean families...
...Damn it! Why the hell are you asking my name?" is Ingrid M. Geerken's imitation of "Catcher in the Rye" author J.D. Salinger. "Phonies are always asking crap like that. I don't know why, but they get a goddamn kick out of asking people who they are and what their names are and if they have a permanent mailing address. Those phony bastards really kill me. They want to know what your goddamn address is so that they can send you a goddamn letter saying that you're not good enough for them. Things like that really depress...