Word: brief
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...unexpected resignation of Kennedy School of Government Dean Robert D. Putnam last June left Rudenstine with yet one more vacant post. Putnam, who said he wanted to return to scholarship and teaching, had been dean for the relatively brief period of two years...
...unexpected resignation of Kennedy School of Government Dean Robert D. Putnam last June left Rudenstine with yet one more vacant post. Putnam, who said he wanted to return to scholarship and teaching, had been dean for the relatively brief period of two years...
...course of the coup was surreal. Has television, which helped unravel the putsch, come to enforce its own brief attention span upon history? Recent great events -- the breakup of Eastern Europe, the Persian Gulf war, the failure of the coup -- seem to be enacting themselves in shorter and shorter time frames. Three days last week undid 10 centuries of civic dormancy. It is possible that the world is dividing between blood feuders and channel changers. The blood feuders, like zealots in Ireland or the Middle East, cannot forget revenge, even over many years; the impatient channel changers of the electronic...
...earlier highly praised novels, Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance (1985) and Prisoner's Dilemma (1988). His work on The Gold Bug Variations, which began in 1986, was aided by a 1989 MacArthur Foundation "genius fellowship." Seldom photographed or interviewed, he put himself on display during a brief prepublication visit to his native U.S. -- he was born and raised in the Midwest -- before returning to the Netherlands, where he has lived for the past five or so years. He says his brush with publicity was less painful than he had feared: "Self-promotion is not easy...
...protection of a class of persons suffering discrimination is not involved. In addition, says Justice, the clinics' proper avenue of redress was in state courts, not federal ones. "Nothing drove this other than consistency," said a former White House official, noting that the Justice Department had filed a similar brief in another case, now before the Supreme Court, involving Operation Rescue's tactics at abortion clinics in northern Virginia...