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...Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, it appeared that there were a few more reels to go-and that the action-packed drama might still have a happy ending. Following the breakdown n the political talks, President Carter had urged Sadat not to cancel the military talks, which were then in recess. Sadat agreed not to do so, though Premier Menachem Begin had announced that he would not be sending his delegates back to he Cairo talks. The Egyptian President also said that informal "serious negotiations" with Israel were still going on; Atherton was apparently...
...victims, people hate to cancel a picnic on account of rain, and yet they often cheer when the weather brings human activity to an abrupt standstill. Very few people are like Blaise Pascal, who insisted: "The weather and my mood have little connection." Most feel that the weather indeed affects their moods, and yet a gloomy day does not necessarily mean a gloomy disposition for all: a book before the hearth, an afternoon of tinkering in the basement or an extended visit to the local bar pleases some people as well as the brightest sun. And at least one study...
...marked, as Tolstoy said of Anna, by a "persistent animation." Compared with her predecessors, her features are less than ideal: her eyes have a slight goldfish bulge, her lips are too full, and her cheekbones are uncommonly high. But in one of those wonderful accidents of nature, the mistakes cancel one another out and the result is a face of strange beauty...
...whole, though, the President's policy gives the economy only gentle stimulus. In total, the tax cuts Carter proposes will not do much more than cancel the effect of tax increases already legislated, and for a sizable slice of the population they will not even do that for long. The principal reason is that Social Security taxes are rising this year, and will jump much more sharply in 1979 and later years under a law that Congress passed in December at Carter's behest...
...student recruitment, a major thrust of recruitment at Harvard, is undercut; that professional recruitment is not a formal institutional objective; and that disorganization and incoherence pervade the minority recruitment effort in such a way that, in the future, these may serve as excuses to cut off all funds and cancel all obligations. As Enrique Moreno correctly observes, student recruitment will have to justify itself year after year, and when it is rendered totally ineffective by the administration, that will signal a move for cancellation of funds and abortment of the program...