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...absolutely no relationship whatsoever between any financial transaction I was involved in and anybody getting a job at any time," Meese insisted. Nonetheless, there was still an appearance of impropriety. Meese's missteps intensified the aura of ethical laxity that has clung to the Reagan Administration from its earliest days. The cumulative impact of questionable dealings and pressured resignations by Reagan appointees has not seemed to hurt the President. But as the November election approaches, the Democrats are certain to portray Reagan as unduly tolerant of misfeasance by his underlings...
...what the locals call Simons' imperious mother. He calls her the Doctor because she teaches something cultural at a nearby college. She also knows how to refill her bourbon glass gracefully, sit appealingly on a wicker sofa and pass on the literary tradition. Some of Simons' earliest playthings were books from his mother's library; he is obviously on his way to being well read, although he takes pains to hide the fact...
...limit to my desires," Mme. de Maintenon confided in a letter to a friend. Few women in history have brought that kind of ambition to such a satisfactory climax. Born in prison in 1635, the daughter of a well-born conman and habitual murderer reached for the moon from earliest childhood. By the age of 48 she had embraced the sun. Her marriage to his Coruscating Magnificence, the Sun King, Louis XIV, lasted for 32 years...
...number of recruiters, some students camp out in sleeping bags on Sunday nights to be first to sign up for the interviews posted at the career center every Monday morning. Grouses Senior Patricia Smith: "Companies sometimes wind up talking not to the most qualified candidates but to the earliest risers." Indeed, many college placement offices have begun to look like a cross between command headquarters and central casting, with their data banks on FORTUNE 500 companies and sophisticated videotaping facilities for mock interviews...
...spartan rooms at Harvard's Adams House, the poet can be persuaded to summon up his youth in County Derry, outside Belfast. "I was one of eight surviving children," he recalls. One of his earliest poems, "MidTerm Break," records the funeral of his young brother, struck by a car and buried in "a four foot box, a foot for every year." Young Seamus might have followed his father into the fields, had he not been introduced as a teen-ager to the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins, the English Roman Catholic convert who became a priest and master poet...