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...positively vituperative in describing Congressional pressure to secure small home-state water projects, Carter, it would appear, has yet to learn a fundamental political lesson: dealing with Congress is the art of bargaining. To a legislator hell-bent on re-election, a federal grant to a local industry means a lot more than a handwritten card from an unpopular president on a sensitive issue. This is a harsh realization Carter simply can't understand...
...years, the first prominent building to show Jahn's personal imprint is Chicago's recently completed Xerox Center. It is straight Mies with one sweeping, un-Miesly rounded corner. Jahn's later design for Chicago's One South Wacker office building demonstrates a less graceful bent toward changed public taste...
Taylor's claim does not stand or fall on how flattering the portrayal is. In the leading New York precedent, for example, former Baseball Pitcher Warren Spahn was able to stop publication of a biography that falsely credited him with having won a Bronze Star and bent facts to make Spahn larger than life. The test, ruled New York's highest court in 1967, was whether the book was knowingly or recklessly "infected with material and substantial falsification." As Taylor puts it: "My livelihood depends on-and don't laugh-my acting, the way I look...
Many acknowledge that a mammoth gap exists between officials and vital undergraduate life, and yesterday the deans seemed bent on closing it. Epps, in particular, spoke beforehand in very certain terms about learning more intimately about current student concerns and communicating a different images for himself...
...faith is television, always a cultural anachronism, with the cop shows half consumed with cars chasing cars. Even here the four-wheeled protagonists carom off walls a lot and wind up as junk. The machine is dead, compacted in a bale. In full view of everyone, Detroit seemed bent on destroying itself...