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Immediately thereafter, if not simultaneously, he must perform a radical operation to remove the already advanced cancer on the body of Harvard--not with a scalpel, but with an ax. Only then will the entire Harvard family, loyal as it has been, will be able to help him clean the Harvard house instead of having it done by an outsider...
...course, what these latter Black scholars lack is what Jeffries possesses in abundance--an ideological ax to grind, and with a twist that is usually anti-Semitic...
...colleague Professor Harvey Mansfield is also fond of grinding an ideological ax vis-a-vis Women's Studies and Afro-American Studies...
Once he gets his new job, Smith is apt to launch the new round of layoffs immediately, since he will be under as much pressure as Stempel to let the ax fall. Board members picked up tough ideas about what needs to be done in talks last month with General Electric chairman Jack Welch, who earned the nickname "Neutron Jack" by slashing GE's work force in the 1980s. Welch reportedly huddled with Smale and several other directors during a two-day forum of CEOs in Hot Springs, Virginia...
...sheep or cattle. Ekkehard Dreiseitel, a University of Innsbruck climatologist, agrees. "We know the weather 5,000 years ago was somewhat warmer. The pasturage in the high Alps ((above the tree line)) would have been tempting in the summer, since it requires no clearing of the forest." Because the ax resembles those found in Stone Age settlements near Brescia, Italy, Egg suggests that the Iceman and fellow shepherds had worked their way through the Alpine foothills from the south, grazing their flocks. It is also possible that he was seeking flint in the highlands...