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Almost off the cuff, during the CUE's first meeting this fall, Professor of Biology and CUE member Robert M. Woollacott suggested that the Undergraduate Council assume responsibility for administering the Guide. This solution should satisfy all parties by preserving the book as an honest, independent resource, credible in the eyes of its intended readers and useful for its intended purposes. By eliminating the book's quasi-official status, Woollacott's plan should also make the Guide less susceptible to misuse and abuse by the powers that...
...pomp and circumstance, it seemed that some of the sizzle had gone out of Gorbachev's celebrated style. From the moment of his airport appearance, the General Secretary seemed faintly subdued. Unlike some of the off-the-cuff speeches that he has delivered at home, his remarks in Paris often had a formulaic quality, as if written by committee...
...image-conscious Gorbachev has repeatedly flashed his smile on Soviet TV, visiting factories and plunging into street crowds to deliver off-the-cuff speeches. In Leningrad, a woman shouted to him, "Just get close to the people and they won't let you down." As the throng pressed in on him, Gorbachev shot back, "Can I get any closer?" In Kiev, he suffered a rare public slip of the tongue, twice referring to the country he leads as "Russia" before correcting himself to say "the Soviet Union, as we now call it, and as it in fact is." The mistake...
Flash is not a part of Smith's business style. He prefers plain buttons to gold cuff links, quiet fishing trips to showy vacations in St.-Tropez. Last week in a lakeside resort in Salzburg, Austria, where he was attending a meeting of his European board of advisers, Smith wore the trademark pinstripe suit. Making no attempt at being suave, he cultivates a deceptive aw-shucks manner and punctuates conversation with his favorite expression: "Holy Toledo...
...news for Harvard didn't stop there. Scott was forced to play his first singles match hindered by a torn or badly strained rotator cuff he injured during practice...