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...wouldn't be worried unless the class we finally select is different from other years...The class of 1993 will be at the same level of excellence."--Senior Admissions Officer Dwight D. Miller about the predicted 7 to 10 percent drop in Harvard applicants this year...
Sure enough, she eventually finds Dwight, who lives with his three children from a previous marriage in the remote village of Chinook, three hours north of Seattle. "I knew my mother would never let herself get tangled up in a mess like that," Tobias writes, but he is wrong. In fact, he is packed off to live with Dwight, and if all goes well, his mother will accept Dwight's proposal and move in too. All goes horribly. Dwight is a secretive bully who is either at his companions' feet or at their throats. With young Tobias...
...decrepitude. That an elderly celluloid cowboy from California unencumbered by heavy intellect, workaholism or Washington experience might halt that decline was inconceivable to the Eastern smart set. Yet Reagan not only arrested the presidency's slide, he reversed it. His high approval rating -- 64% last week, 5 points above Dwight Eisenhower's in December 1960 -- is only one crude measure of that change. Most Americans are more sanguine about their lot and their leaders than they were in 1980. Government paralysis is no longer the norm...
...seasons, San Francisco's darling quarterback has had an internal rival, one with the disturbing name of Steve Young. Montana is only 32 but has charted enough maladies, highlighted by back surgery two years ago, to feel older. His favorite receiver and off-field running mate, Dwight Clark, 32, retired with creaky knees this season. "Losing Clark," coach Walsh theorizes, "may have started Joe toward that feeling of isolation that inevitably comes...
...terms of process, never before have candidates for the judiciary been so thoroughly screened. When President Dwight Eisenhower appointed Earl Warren, he never suspected how often he would disagree with his Chief Justice. The process now insures against such dissent. The political litmus test has been extended (though not entirely) to our "insulated" third branch of government...