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Last week, amid great expectations, Michaels returned. Not to the low-key late-night schedule, but to the hour of reckoning: prime time. And not for a loose-limbed 90 minutes but for a stricter 60. The question that hovered over the whole endeavor: What could he do for an encore without cannibalizing his own success...
...University Avoids Confronting Harassment" would have been a better and more accurate title for your article on the release of the survey results (10-27-83, p.3). Sometimes journalists, in their endeavor to find neutral sounding language, can give a mistakenly positive picture of things. Amy Glarckman...
Dispatching gunboats. Sending in the Marines. The projection of American power once seemed so straightforward. And yet in recent years it has presented more and more of a dilemma for a superpower whose every military endeavor elicits endless review and frequently querulous recriminations at home and abroad. By reaffirming the U.S. commitment to keep its Marines in Lebanon, and by sending troops to a minuscule island in the eastern Caribbean, the Reagan Administration last week attempted to reassert the global role of American military might. "This may be a turning point in history," Secretary of State George Shultz told...
...soldier, I realized there were lots of other parts to life." He would have had to retire from the Army, at his pace, after 35 years of service, which would have made him 56-possibly too old, he felt, to embark fresh on a new line of endeavor but too young in his view to drop out of an active working life...
...council's sub-committee structure and relatively strict attendance policy made council membership at least a two-meeting, six-hour-per-week endeavor. For the students serving on the council's grants-giving committee, typical work weeks often included five to 10 additional hours. And, like a small number of students, Council Treasurer Peter N. Smith '83 found serving on the Undergraduate Council practically a full-time job: a 30 hour-per-week commitment...