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...Presidential Counsellor, with broadened responsibility for handling interdepartmental programs. Health, Education and Welfare Secretary-designate Caspar Weinberger will become Counsellor for Human Resources, Housing and Urban Development Secretary-designate James Lynn will be Counsellor for Community Development, and Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz will oversee Natural Resources. Each will confront related problems that overlap various departments. The shift is sensible, but it has been accomplished at the expense of the other Cabinet officers, who have clearly suffered a demotion. From now on, for example, if Interior Secretary Rogers Morton wants to get a decision on the use of park land...
Harvard coach John Lee is still waiting for former 190-pound heavyweight Keough to hit 158. If Keough's crash diet works, he will confront Kuntz while Henkel, the ususal starter at 158, meets Maine. Keough, a very strong grappler, should do well against Kuntz. Henkel, however, has yet to win a match for the Crimson...
Yesterday Dershowitz called the report "a serious attempt to confront a difficult problem," but said that he felt that the recommendations were too extreme. He said that he favored a staggered series of innovations in the court structure with trial periods on each new measure...
...must overcome a great deal of ingrained prejudice and insensitivity in its audience. Winter Soldier attempts to do this, but fails to fully accomplish its task. We still await a film which, by combining the war's anguish and futility with outstanding cinematic form, will oblige America to confront the truth...
...whining, stupid pet that tries to follow one out of the lavatory. For all its naughtiness, Transparent Things is also an autumnal, even philosophical work-a feat, considering the book's brevity, even for Nabokov. Apparently finished with the luxuriant digressions of Ada, he is impatient to confront the mysteries of art and death and human folly that have always preoccupied...