Word: discussion
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Panelists will discuss the future of American polities in Paine Hall, and among the speakers will be John Kenneth Galbraith, Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics, and Richard M. Neustadt, Director of the Kennedy Institute of Polities...
...been able to talk to him in any meaningful way. In the years just before he became dean, Fouraker taught only in special advanced programs. As a result virtually no MBA student recognized Fouraker's name when he was awarded the deanship. Fouraker, who has generally refused to discuss with the press any difficulties he is having at the school, was surprisingly frank about his relationship to the MBA student body. "It's still a critical problem," he admitted. "I've thought about a variety of things that could be done. I've thought of trying to teach or perhaps...
Last week the Cooper-Church measure could have been passed with about 55 votes in its favor. There was no vote, however, because opponents wanted to "discuss the matter at length," as Dole put it. That is a polite phrase for a small, undeclared guerrilla-style filibuster. A vote will take place this week, but only on the preamble. Debate on the amendment's core might go on indefinitely, since it takes a two-thirds vote to impose cloture. The tone that it could take was suggested by Michigan Senator Robert Griffin's remark that the amendment would...
Radical Conservative. To begin with, there was the problem of the campaign slogan: "No more bullshit." In fact, to discuss the Mailer campaign without generous samples of the excesses that salted his speeches and staff communications would be like discoursing on American democracy without mentioning De Tocqueville. Fornication and cancer are used so often as aggressive metaphors that they seem to take on the roiling essence of Mailer himself...
Reporters are stirring collectively at other U.S. papers, most notably at the New York Times. More than 30 Times staffers, including top reporters and critics, gathered privately one recent Sunday afternoon to discuss morale and swap complaints. Managing Editor A.M. Rosenthal says that no formal committee exists, and he has received no demands. But smaller meetings are continuing, and some approach to management is in the offing. One likely pitch: that the Times editors are out of touch with some groups, particularly students and blacks, and that their judgment about stories about those groups is sometimes uninformed. As a result...