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...Here the most loyal Harvard man Everest known." Bavley F. Mason '51, associate dean for resources at the Kennedy School, said Sunday...
...Soviet arms control was the Everest of earthly problems," says Roger Molander, a nuclear expert formerly with the U.S. National Security Council, who now heads the Washington-based Roosevelt Center for American Policy Studies. "But that was before I understood nuclear proliferation. It makes the superpower arms race look like a comparatively minor league problem." Says Charles Ebinger of Georgetown University's Center for Strategic and International Studies: "It's probably the most pessimistic issue I've ever dealt with. Nobody seems to come up with any solutions, myself included...
...figure of the nanny looms large in history. "My nurse was my confidante," wrote a wistful Winston Churchill of his beloved Mrs. Everest. American aristocrats such as Franklin Roosevelt also had treasured nannies, but will the new nanny to the upper middle class have a similar impact? That will take a generation to discover. Meanwhile, they are charting a new egalitarian course between the pantry and the parlor. Says Bunge: "They're not servants and they're not new sisters. What are they? That's what the nannies have to figure out." Mary Poppins may be an outdated stereotype...
...that she ironed it out when it was damp. Thackeray endured its "rather shabby pay," Coleridge tried in vain to join its staff, and Dickens endured its critical contempt. It accompanied the Light Brigade to the Valley of Death in the Crimea, and climbed with Edmund Hillary up Mount Everest. Although it proudly displays the royal coat of arms on its masthead, in an 1830 obituary it described the standard of conduct of King George IV as "little higher than that of animal indulgence," and when Queen Victoria wrote a letter answering its criticism, the editors declined to publish...
...nature of journalism to focus on the immediate, and the immediate isn't always important," Koppel says. He also admits that a few shows have been less than intellectually stimulating. "We did one from the base of Mt. Everest Technologically, it was miraculous. But there wasn't a whole lot to say, especially after we lost touch with the climbing team." "The program was kind of nothing," he continues. "Every once in a while the shows are, quite frankly, boring We did a totally sweet and forgettable show on the Cabbage Patch dolls...