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...weights, track records and the anonymous expert's picks. The best handicapper works for The Globe--he gets about 60 per cent right, the best sources say--and you should buy the paper beforehand. The greyhounds tend to be more chancy than horses, longshots are better bets and favorites fold up as often...
...time, money and often desperate effort trying to make their bodies desirable. They are primed to do so by the cosmetics and clothing industry and their advertising, by fashion magazines or even blatantly exploitive pulp like Viva and Playboy. The result of this obsession with every wrinkle, fold of flesh and smell seems to be low body-esteem, increased insecurity, regardless of how attractive they actually are. Chesler and Goodman cite a 1973 study in which female and male college students were asked to "write down the amount of money you would ask in compensation for each part of your...
...dominated by Boyle cronies, elected by the rank and file because they were better known than Miller's men. In addition, four board members endorsed by Miller deserted their sponsor, charging him with mismanagement. Finally Trbovich, Miller's reform-minded running mate, left the fold to lead the opposition. The charges against Miller: that his staff is dominated by "leftwing radicals from New York and Boston," that excessive-and illegal-spending by Miller is plunging the union into the red, and that he is a poor administrator...
Silber has presented B.U. with two alternatives: either it will be run as a corporation, with little job security and a strong central administration, or it will fold. He refuses to honor tenure in making staff reductions, emphasizing quality rather than seniority. It is true that tenure has been used frequently to keep radicals out of the academic community; but eliminating tenure completely would further increase the power of the central administration. Given Silber's history of conflict with radical professors--he has fought long and hard against the formation of an academic union there--allowing him to remove tenure...
...always will be ... No one is ever going to be sure." He praised his team of distinguished psychiatrists for giving sensible explanations of Patty's conduct. By calling Kozol and Fort, said Bailey, the Government hoped to cause such confusion over the psychiatric testimony "that you'd fold the whole ball of wax and say, 'Well, they disagreed with each other,' and leave it there." Bailey singled out Fort for excoriation, calling him "a psychopath and a habitual liar...