Word: done
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Cynics would argue that the English establishment has merely done a marvelous job of integrating budding student politicos into its ranks. Certainly the Far Left are a sad procession of ghosts on English campuses, and many university student unions are now run by Conservative students elected on 50-60 per cent campus-wide ballots. But the sense of decency and "fair play" can still stir sizeable student numbers to protest--two recent examples being demonstrations against university investments in South Africa (Harvard and the Kennedy School, take note!), and greatly increased overseas students fees...
...Weizman; on Saturday morning, he spent an hour and a quarter with the Egyptians. A source privy to the conversations said that the President "did some extremely straight talking-especially with the Israelis-reminding them what both sides had agreed to at Camp David and what had to be done." Dayan and Egypt's Acting Foreign Minister Boutros Ghali then met for 4% hours with Alfred Atherton, the State Department's roving ambassador to the Middle East. After that came the negotiators' tentative agreement on a draft treaty...
...optimism on a losing team. He is succeeding. The Cardinals have come to admire Wilkinson's brand of quiet intensity. Says Offensive Tackle Dan Dierdorf, the team's leader: "He's like a hammer covered with velvet-he leaves no abrasions, but he gets the job done...
...roll across the stunned square. Now it seemed to hit everyone at once. "E il Polacco!"?It's the Pole?said one onlooker. "Un Papa straniero!"?a foreign Pope?shouted others. The realization was beginning to sink in that the supposedly hidebound College of Cardinals had done not merely the unexpected but the nearly unthinkable...
...Civil Aeronautics Board, Kahn became famous for freeing airlines from burdensome federal regulation. As overseer of the guidelines, he would be in charge of much greater Government intervention in the private economy. But Kahn has built a towering reputation in Washington as a bureaucrat who gets things done. A vastly energetic but informal official who often pads about his office in stocking feet, Kahn is a trained economist who believes that the greatest challenge to his profession "is deciding not what the ultimate, economically rational equilibrium should look like, but what is economically rational in an irrational world...