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...departure of Vujovic comes less than three months after another standout booter, Bent Hinze, left Harvard for similar academic reasons. In November, Hinze dropped out to return to Norway. He had wanted to major in environmental studies, but he found that at Harvard there was no such pursuit. For Hinze to get credit in Norway for his undergraduate environmental studies work, he would have to major in it. Since he could not major in it at Harvard, he decided to return home to the University of Oslo...
There are those who still think that the orphaned moments of Nixon's past will catch up with him. They see the meaningful men of history rising from identifiable sources and building their purposes and characters on fixed principles that, even when bent along the way, tend to endure. The view of some of the landscape behind Nixon is bewildering, cluttered with unexplained contradictions and uprooted theology. But so far, good or bad, Nixon has overcome all the doubts...
...military bent over backward to explain Heck's actions. Some Pentagon staffers suggested that he might be suffering from combat fatigue. A senior Air Force officer implied that the heavy losses of B-52s during the strikes had finally frightened him. "There's some sympathy for that guy Heck," the officer allowed. "He was flying into the hairiest area of the world." But Heck himself said that fear had nothing to do with his decision. "If they tell me now to go on milk runs, the B-52 targets over South Viet Nam where nobody gets shot...
What little is known of his true nature comes from a handful of his friends and associates. By their testimony, he is intelligent, warm, charming, compassionate, humorous and unpretentious, as well as undisciplined, boorish, gloomy, supercilious, cruel and downright bent. About the only thing everybody can agree on is that he is a prankster. He delights in disguising his voice in his frequent phone calls to friends, assuming such identities as a job applicant, a woman, or a doctor reporting a comically grotesque diagnosis of some third party. He is also devastatingly adept at mimicry, something he does not only...
...facing a constitutional crisis. That branch of Government that most closely represents the people is not yet broken, but it is bent and in danger of snapping. A Congress intended by the framers of the Constitution to be the nation's supreme policy setter, lawmaker and reflector of the collective will has been forfeiting its powers for years. Now a President in the aftermath of a landslide seems intent upon further subordinating it and establishing the White House ever more firmly as the center of federal power...