Word: callings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Baker and a companion are turkey hunting on 1,366 acres of Texas scrubland about 50 miles south of San Antonio, a wild, almost barren part of the U.S. where it is easy to believe that due process is still a bullet. "I call it the Rock Pile Ranch," says Baker, "and that's about all that's on it. Nothing else but some water wells and turkey feeders. Coming here is the closest I get to therapy. I'm not really into material things, but land, well, they're not making any more...
Baker is uncomfortable with what he and Bush call the "vision thing." When he was chief of staff, Baker once said he didn't need to have a vision "because the guy down the hall ((Reagan)) has one. I'm more interested in the game than in philosophy." With the new guy in the Oval Office equally at sea, the matter may fall to Baker by default...
...didn't agree with the call too much," Kierstead admitted, "but a referee's call doesn't lose a match for you, and I should have been able to come back from something like that...
Without the call, Kierstead could have tied the match, giving Harvard two points and subtracting one point from Princeton's tally...
Guiney argues that the controversy over minority involvement in the formation of the plan is a case study of the elected School Committee's ineffectiveness. "It certainly does call into question the School Committee's viability as a body which works together," she says. "The Black School Committee member who made the charge met five or six times with the consultants...