Word: correctible
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President Bok is initially correct in barely acknowledging the student positions on the various issues sweeping the campus, including those concerning University-held investments in South Africa, and their dividends such as the Charles Engelhard Library in the John F. Kennedy School of Government. The current students will have graduated soon to be replaced by another crop committed to perhaps the opposite perspective in the current issues of debate. The Administration of President Bok however has responsibility for the long-run survival of the institution and the sensitive feelings of the University's older and more conservative alumni...
...report comes out from this investigation, Harvard will certainly correct the situation," he added...
...began in his firm, resonant baritone voice. It was a traditional Italian priestly salutation, rarely heard in recent years. "May he always be blessed," the crowd replied. "Even if I am not sure that I can express myself well in your ?our?Italian language [applause], you will correct me if I make a mistake." In fact, his slightly accented Italian was so polished that this remark was more a gesture than an apology. The new Pope twice paid homage to the Virgin Mary (a figure of extraordinary veneration in Poland) and referred to his new role as Bishop...
...IDEA FOR Ira Levin's The Boys from Brazil is potentially no more idiotic than those which have fueled many successful Hollywood thrillers. A nasty Nazi doctor clones 94 infants from a graft of Hitler's skin, and plants his babies all over the world, trusting that in the correct environment at least a quarter of them will grow up to be fuhrers. It might have worked as satire of Hollywood, because these Nazis think like producers and studio-heads: Why bother to devise something new when cloning the old formula makes for a smashing success...
...Hickey told the Republicans at a subsequent stop in Upper Darby, Pa.: "I just don't see how you can cut taxes without cutting services, and I want to know what services are going to be cut." The still untested Kemp-Roth theory may prove to be reasonably correct, but G.O.P. Congressman John Anderson of Illinois sardonically admits: "The average voter does not understand how the Laffer curve works, and neither...