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...more than high-level academic gossip," said one Harvard administrative source. "For people involved in higher education these things are already known but they are quite impressive to the legislative committees with which many hard-pressed state schools must contend...
Many commanders of ships and bases feel that Zumwalt is delving into personnel matters that have long been their rightful prerogative. Many Navy chiefs, the indispensable career men who run much of the service, contend that lowly swabs are getting perks that it had taken them years to earn. Besides, there is the issue of authority, the subversion of the chain of command. Grouses one commander at Norfolk: "Since these Z-grams came out, some men in the lower grades seem to feel that they are working directly for the C.N.O.and to hell with everybody in between...
Anchorage lies at the top of Cook Inlet, on the edge of a plain; the city has few buildings tall enough to contend with the open sky. Only the steeply-rising mountains nearby are large enough really to hold your vision, and they draw it up their rough slopes to that sky, a sky that is so dominating that it reminds you, even in the daytime, that it is the beginning of space, and not just the end of earth...
With his successes and failings tightly linked together, Barenboim is one of the most intriguing figures in music today. His pudgy little hands fly over the keyboard, and he is a prodigious sight reader. The trouble, some critics contend not unjustly, is that he spends too much time sight-reading and not enough time thinking about the works he already knows. But Barenboim's surface accomplishment is perhaps a peculiar result of the frantic musical life he has so far chosen to lead...
High-level Help. Most mortgage men like to do business with Fannie Mae, but some argue that the association is overburdened with debt and competes unfairly against private lenders. For example, they contend that the corporation siphons funds from savings banks and savings and loan associations, which are prohibited by regulation from paying as much as Fannie Mae does to attract money from investors. Says Clarence Ostema, a Manhattan mortgage broker: "It is morally wrong for one Government agency to issue a stock when another Government agency, the Federal Reserve, can make it gyrate and allow speculators to make fortunes...