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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What do they do for fun? "We've perfected the art of hanging out," they say. Their roommate, Jeff Ferguson, founder of the Boston chapter of the Guardian Angels, introduced them to many of his co-workers, who now "hang out" in their Leverett room...
...information, select the best candidates to meet those objectives. Klitgaard utilizes the vast realm of literature on the various factors aiding prediction both of academic success in universities and of later-life success: grades, standardized tests, interviews, letters of recommendation, intelligence tests, and the like. He closes with a chapter on preferential admissions for minorities, the topic that inflamed the campus five years...
...four-term Governor of New York and 1928 Democratic presidential nominee, Alfred E. Smith was celebrated as an honest politician in a corrupt milieu. But a chapter deleted from the recently published autobiography of Thomas L. Chadbourne, a wheeling-dealing corporation lawyer, claims that during the 1920s Chadbourne gave Smith cash and stock options worth $400,000. The motive was high-minded: the payments were designed to augment Smith's $10,000-a-year Governor's salary so the Happy Warrior could live "without bread-and- butter worries." Chadbourne, who died in 1938, admits he was miffed when Smith later...
When Chadbourne's memoirs were acquired by New York University, the New York firm of Chadbourne, Parke, Whiteside & Wolff successfully requested that the Smith chapter be dropped from publication. A spokesman told the New York Times that the firm merely wanted to avoid libeling anyone, although dead people cannot be libeled. Still, the reputations of the dead, as of the living, can be tainted by unsavory lore...
With a little champagne in the Rose Garden and a good deal of sentiment from Ronald Reagan, the White House troika marched into the history books last week to become another chapter in the arcane world of staffing and running the presidency. Meese, Baker, Deaver, sounding -- and often acting -- like an infield in the American League, now will be part of the lore that includes Nicolay and Hay, who served Lincoln, Colonel House, who advised Wilson, Kennedy's Irish Mafia and the infamous Berlin Wall, Haldeman and Ehrlichman, Nixon's unfortunate duo who ended up in jail...