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Hodsoll maintained that the book dealt with routine policy issues and did not reveal strategy. But Stockman, who impersonated Carter in a rehearsal debate with Reagan, said that its "advocacy point of view" was "useful as I prepared outlines of possible answers representing the 'other side...
...post involving Internal management, Pickering served as Ambassador to Jordan from 1974 to 1978 and, since 1981, to Nigeria. In both nations, he won admirers. A senior Jordanian diplomat remembers him as one of Washington's best envoys to the kingdom, "a first-rate professional diplomat who always dealt with us honestly and intelligently." Beneath his softspoken, scholarly demeanor, Pickering can be personable and witty. Indeed, he established an unusual rapport both with Jordan's King Hussein and with Nigerian President Shehu Shagari...
...students are uncertain about what measures the United States or Harvard can realistically take. Benatar says that the most important thing for South African Blacks is increased education, a natural area for Harvard to assist in. "The illiteracy problem has to be dealt with on a more personal level. For people to go down there and try to educate Blacks on an individual basis would have far greater positive effects than just turning the screws," she says, adding "rather than divest. Harvard should investigate ways in which it can further aid in the education of South African Blacks...
Thus, as part of his daily routine, Alpert commonly receives calls to identify and eliminate insects ranging from some of the most common pests, like clothes moths or carpet beetles, to some of the most exotic. He has dealt with pests, such as Ornithonyssus bacoti, a tropical rat mite; Pollenia ruidis, a form of cluster fly; and a rare species of beetle larva that was found in a shipment of books...
Alpert works at sites all across the campus, but because his office was established only in 1981, he says he has not had time to inspect and treat all the areas of the University suffering from insect problems. "There has been improvement," he notes, "but I've only dealt with a fraction of the University." Until now, most of his work has been done at the medical area, the libraries and some of the University's kitchens. He estimates that he receives about 20 calls a day to do insect identifications...