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...hope that as he assumes his new self-styled role of "Senior Associate Dean" he will continue to protect the University's institutional memory and have time to work on his own student initiatives. Additionally, it is necessary to preserve the position of Dean of Students for Epps' suc cessor. In announcing his retirement, Epps quoted from the Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, class of 1821, referring to the "long winding train" of men and women who have touched this institution. He now takes his place in that long winding train as a living legend of Harvard history...
...toting good ol' boy who gives law enforcement down South a certain cave man cast. The sheriff represents just that sort of legalized mayhem that made Walking Tall such a big hit, and one might expect that Macon County Line would try to follow along in its prede cessor's misshapen footprints, combining the nostalgia of Graffiti with the violence of Walking Tall...
...Walters be told that "discreet political actions and investigations on be half of the Administration are a firm requirement and responsibility on his part." The memo complained that Walters seemed no more willing to let the IRS be used for political purposes than had been his Nixon-appointed prede cessor, Randolph Thrower...
...cessor to Sullivan, but there is considerable speculation that Assistant City Manager John Corcoran may serve in the post, at least on a temporary basis...
That evening he appeared at the second annual awards dinner of the Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Foundation for the men tally retarded. Following a droll mono logue by Jack Benny and the whispery voice of Nat King Cole, Johnson spoke softly and solemnly about his prede cessor. "We shall finish his fight," he said, "and we shall conquer mental retardation and mental illness and poverty and every other foe of the land that he loved, and every foe of the people he served...