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...Deans about it. Although he didn't directly name names, Leonard did not mince many words: "There may be some people who are still insensitive and unaware of equal employment and affirmative requirements relating to college and university hiring. Where we find such naivete--maybe it should be forgiven. But since we know the person doing the hiring has not existed in such a Thoreau-like world, maybe that person's salary should go to pay for the person to whom she or he made a job promise contradictory to Harvard's rules...
...reunion, the wife becomes presumably the only matron in a tem ple of vestal virgins, the daughter certainly the only virgin in a brothel - peaks of survival which may outdo even Pericles' own. Shakespeare, the scholars say, wrote only the last three acts, and perhaps ought to be forgiven for them...
...they're occasionally even willing to act farcically on their own. Last fall, for instance, when the president of a new Harvard socialist group inaugurated its career with a vitriolic attack on SDS, the New American Movement, and a couple of leftist Crimson editors, bemused observers could have been forgiven for regarding it as one more in a seemingly endless series of reductions to absurdity of Harvard politics...
...successful 1969 bid for the presidency to the support of Giscard's Independent Republicans, a small swing party (62 seats in the 487-member National Assembly) that almost always lines up with Pompidou's U.D.R. (Democratic Union for the Republic). But old-line Gaullists have not forgiven Giscard for urging a non vote in the 1969 referendum that forced De Gaulle to resign. Thus whenever Giscard seems to be flying too high, prominent Gaullists like former Premier Michel Debré start shooting at him. So, occasionally, does Pompidou; there are reports that the President wrote in the margin...
...well at all with the Governor's new image." The ordeal of his paralysis seems to have mellowed Wallace, now 54. He does not even bear a grudge against his would-be assassin. "I hope he's a new man now," says Wallace. "I've forgiven...