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Robinson Hall has new stairs and renovated offices. The Science Center has new chairs in some lecture halls. Leverett House has a new mail room. Blodgett Pool has a new filter. The Peabody Music Building has two new roofs...
...under his domed brow, and through a veil of smoke rising from the cigarette at the corner of his mouth, he inquires, "What else did you find out there?" There is about him something of the disguised intensity of a gold prospector. He smokes each cigarette down to the filter...
Silber's voice resonates in part because he has no political filter. He moves through life like a heat-seeking missile, careering from one trajectory to another as new targets appear on his screen. He believes in absolutes. He abhors moral relativism and what others call "values." "A person who believes in having sexual relationships with children has values," he snaps in a clipped Texas baritone. "He puts a high value on pedophilia...
...throwing money everywhere. Despite all these frenzied efforts, initial returns showed Stevenson the winner. But L.B.J.'s campaign had not ended. Caro demonstrates how the Johnson organization, with the knowledge of the candidate, proceeded to steal the election. Late reports from southern counties in L.B.J.'s pocket continued to filter in, giving Johnson near unanimous tallies. Days later the disputed result was complete. Out of 988,295 votes cast, Johnson...
Amid all the institutional turmoil, Secretary Sullivan's decision to push out Commissioner Young has been especially inept. Sullivan has no replacement waiting, and in fact has been unable to fill many important health jobs because White House conservatives filter out nominees with proabortion views. Pro-lifers are sure to scrutinize Young's successor closely since the agency is likely to decide on approving new abortion-inducing drugs like RU 486, the pill manufactured by a French subsidiary of Hoechst...