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...Government. "Abe Sofaer is a great New York lawyer," Governor Mario Cuomo told a breakfast group. "If they tell him 'Make it legal, Abe,' he'll make it legal." Sofaer refuses to get caught in a law-vs.-policy dogfight. He cites Lyricist Sammy Cahn's dictum that it is impossible to say "what comes first, the music or the words...
...community and consider needed reforms together with the faculty and administrators, the problem of latent and diluted change would dissipate. In addition, students might find less of an urge to create a private community, as through final clubs. If the generally accepted principle of equality became a community dictum, elitist organizations that categorically exclude the majority of the student community might play a less central role in the social life of undergraduates. Student groups might at least recognize that they reflect and extend from a larger organization of equals...
Throughout the chain, the sales help strictly follow a dictum laid down by the company's president, James Nordstrom, 46: replace anything on demand, no matter how expensive, no questions asked. Although the policy is sometimes abused by shoppers (who may, for example, order a $500 dress, wear it once to a party, and then return it), it works well for Nordstrom. Says Skidmore: "I < couldn't believe how nice they were being. I bought another pair of shoes on the spot...
Perhaps a paradigm for Bok's 15th year is the outrageous dictum issued last week by Samuel C. Butler, president of the Board of Overseers, Harvard's alumni-elect governing body. In the notorious tradition of his immediate predecessor, Joan T. Bok, Butler has attempted to cut the board off from the community at large and restrict the free speech of its members. The New York lawyer issued a letter that warned overseers against allowing "leaks" to members of the press, recommending that any media inquiry receive "a no comment, followed by a polite goodbye." Though President...
...international business: open covenants, openly arrived at. America would indeed enter the corrupting arena of great power politics -- but incorruptibly, without secrets. In 1929 Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson found out about American code-breaking and interception operations. He abruptly terminated them with his deservedly famous dictum, "Gentlemen do not read each other's mail...