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...there is a third Pete Rose, a carrot-topped little line-drive hitter. "I've never seen a twelve-year-old who can hit like Petey," says his father. "He called me from Cincinnati the other day to say he had been missing me and that his team had some easy games coming up. Couldn't he come to Philadelphia for a few days...
...devastation of total conventional war, and knows that nuclear war would be even more calamitous. "While noting that detente had "yielded a severe disillusionment for those who expected a moderation of Soviet behavior." Reagan stated his willingness to "build a new understanding with the Soviets even holding the carrot West trade for "a Soviet leadership devoted to improving its peoples lives, rather than expanding its armed conquests." As observers have noted, the Administration appears to be drifting towards the "traditional center" which includes at least the appearance of an earnest attempt at arms control...
FORMAL PRESSURE for more women's studies is "not an appropriate thing" for Radcliffe to be doing, says Phillipa Bovet, associate dean of Radcliffe. President Horner speaks of using "the carrot," rather than the stick in working for more women's studies. She notes for example, that Radcliffe requires Harvard faculty members who apply for a Mellon Fellowship to present evidence of curricular innovation toward more women's studies in their courses. But Radcliffe has not vocally called for a women's studies concentration, not has it encouraged Radcliffe students who have applied for special concentrations in women's studies...
...Sawyer's carrot-colored hair peeked out from under a floppy fishing hat, and his bare feet dragged in the muddy water as he and Huck Finn floated lazily down the river on a makeshift wooden raft. Nothing could have been more American-only the river was not the Mississippi; it was the Dnieper. And the actor playing Tom Sawyer was freckle-faced Fedya Stukov, 9, from Moscow...
...roulette, organizes his yearly budget in anticipation of a recurrence, kept raising the ante." Jackson demanded that the Administration insist on 100,000 of all nationalities and specify the geographic areas from which they should be drawn. "Our policy toward the Soviets was based on a balance between the carrot and the stick," writes Kissinger. But a combination of Watergate and the new liberal-conservative coalition destroyed the carrot and "we were not given a bigger stick either...