Word: casuals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard's organizational structure--is harder to follow. Power seems to flow from the Board of Overseers through the President and Fellows and down to the Expository Writing Committee. Connected by a dotted line--indicative of their mystifying purposes--are the President and Trustees of Radcliffe College. The casual observer will also notice that there are no students on the chart, except as members of two advisory committees connected by solid lines to the associate dean of Harvard College and the dean of Harvard College. At least student pols can console each other with the thought that they have...
Stories of torture and casual brutality by police in the Basque country are endless. Xavier Arzallus, head of the moderate Basque Nationalist Party, cites the case of one of his party members whose home was raided by the Guardia Civil. The man was taken into the hills, threatened with a machine gun, then jailed for three days without food, water or sleep, while being tortured. Says Arzallus: "He is so frightened he refuses to bring charges." Another man, who did complain after Guardia Civil members ransacked his apartment building in a futile search for dynamite, claimed that the invaders...
...singing There'll Always Be an England ("If England means as much to you/ As England means to me"), and though NBC'S John Hart took a smarmy look at Lady Di's old school to see how proper English girls got their special "edge," a casual television viewer might conclude that the wedding and perhaps royalty itself were magnificently irrelevant...
...irresolute or divided." The Secretary's methods of signaling this hard line to the Soviets are not always diplomatically sound and have upset U.S. allies, particularly in Europe, on several occasions. Secretary of State Alexander Haig has often found himself "clarifying" or otherwise cleaning up after Weinberger's seemingly casual references to such explosive issues as reviving plans for the neutron bomb, linking arms control to Soviet policy in Poland or selling arms to China. While Weinberger has not really trespassed on Haig's turf, he has not hesitated to express views that differ from those of the Secretary...
...What a casual observer would not have noticed about Bell and Zacharski -and their neighbors certainly missed -was a tale out of John le Carré: international espionage, replete with secret passwords, a document-copying camera, clandestine meetings with foreign agents, and payoffs made in gold. Zacharski, the FBI alleged last week after six years of not-so-casually observing him, was an undercover operative for the Polish intelligence service. According to a court affidavit filed by the bureau, he had paid Bell about $110,000 over the past three years to photograph highly classified documents detailing Hughes Aircraft radar...