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Five panelist--Jackie Cooke, a graduate student in government; Jeffrey Ferguson '85 of Leverett House, Ronald Roach '85 of Quincy House, Johnson and government graduate student Sheree Queen-Bryant-presented their views of what the Black intellectual could glean from Cruse...
Shamir repeated his pledge to invite Labor to join a national unity government if he is elected, but Peres quickly turned aside the offer as an "election ploy." Nonetheless, the winner almost certainly will need the support of several small parties to build a coalition. Shamir could glean bright news from polls that show Tehiya, an ultra-right-wing Likud partner with three Knesset members, picking up six or seven seats. If the election is taper thin, that could be enough to tip the balance in Shamir's favor...
...What we glean of a family history suggests an atmosphere of caprice and superfluity conducive to the formation of a surrealist temperament. Bunuel's father, a successful businessman whom Bunuel describes as a man of extreme leisure ("the only thing my father would carry in the street was his elegantly wrapped jar of caviar"), seems to have had a surrealist's sense of humor. Bunuel grew up in "a very large and bourgeois apart-grew up in "a very large and bourgeois apart-10 balconies and took up the entire second floor of the building." While this spawning ground...
...their services to the office, interviewing candidates in their home towns and passing on their impressions to Cambridge. In the past, the form provided for interviewers to fill out about each candidate has suggested that interviewers should only relay their general impressions about a candidate and not try to glean too much from a 45- to 60-minute conversation. "We understand that in the short span of the interview time, it is impossible to know with much certainty very much about a student..." the form explains...
...similar perspective on Glenn arises in today's contest. Every major public option poll shows him running about even with chief interplay rival Walter F. Mondale and he is widely described as "the only Democrat who can beat Reagan." Yet the question remains, as Mondale has put it, whether Glean is really a "true Democrat." He made it to the Senate largely on his glory, not on the grass roots meeting-hall, Humphreyesque training that Mondale and others boast. He has troubles appealing to the traditional Democratic constituencies of minorities and labor. If anything, The Right Staff clearly separates...