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...told," Pogrund says, "that the editors consult their lawyer about once every six weeks here at The Globe." (The Boston Globe invited Pogrund to take a six-month position last year, and since June his byline has appeared atop stories on the mounting racial crisis in South Africa...
...running debate this week has centered around the physical outlook for the Big Green, which may or may not be serious depending on whom you consult. Inside reports from Hanover have star fullback Curt Oberg on the questionable starter list, having suffered a mild shoulder separation in last week's game with Yale. Responding to the reports, Restic harkens back to 1974 when a supposedly injured Tom Fleming ran wild at the Stadium in Dartmouth's 24-18 victory...
From the looks of her bibliography, Ostrovsky had access to reams of correspondence from Celine in private hands and conducted an exhaustive series series of interviews with family and aquaintances, while McCarthy relied solely on public sources. Given the circumstances, McCarthy must have been tempted to consult his predecessor's text. Yet she is footnoted only once in the biography, to recommend her work for a contrasting opinion. Considering the deft grasp of history displayed in Celine, you'd expect Patrick McCarthy to be a shrewder politician...
...back out of his agreement. Twice before ? in talks with Harold Wilson aboard the Royal Navy ships H.M.S. Tiger in 1966 and H.M.S. Fearless in 1968 ? Smith had seemingly agreed to end Rhodesia's Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI). But then he returned to Salisbury "to consult my colleagues," and changed his mind. He actually initialed an agreement for ultimate majority rule in 1971, but a British commission went to Rhodesia in early 1972 and decided that the proposal was unacceptable to black Rhodesians. This time the pressure on Smith was far greater ? and to some extent...
...also said it will attempt to force the University to give the affirmative action officer "real power" rather than the right only to "consult and advise and write reports...