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"He was a splendid dean and we were very sorry to have him leave the world of academia to devote his full time to government," former Harvard president Nathan M. Pusey '28 said last night. "Wherever he went, he was going to be a force."
With Morris around, Clinton doesn't have to devote every waking hour to political calculation. He knows Morris will take care of that. He can concentrate on being the benevolent father that Americans--and his own self-image and strategy--seem to require. As Morris once told Clinton biographer David...
We tried to imagine the 12th-semester junior down the hall--the one with the tangled hair and the Fu Manchu mustache--knocking on the door of a future Senator and saying, "If you've got a little time to devote to the search for truth, some folks in our...
Payne is a tall, lean, all-American man: a jowlier Tom Brokaw in a red, white and blue tie. He shakes hands firmly and stands with his face too close to yours. When he's kept waiting, he whistles impatiently and claps one hand over a closed fist. He has...
Why would a seemingly vital federal agency be so unprepared? For one thing, the FAA is financially strapped, and has lost 5,000 employees since 1993. It has a constant shortage of inspectors, and rather than inspecting, they must devote increasing amounts of time to clerical tasks. Moreover, the agency...