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Although less visible than the host of senators, congressmen, and cabinet secretaries who grab the media spotlight. Harvard's 334th Commencement speaker has often been called the second most powerful man in Washington. Appointed by President Jimmy Carter in 1979 and named to a second four-year term by President Reagan in 1983. Volcker enjoys a degree of autonomy shared by no other government official...
...that. When I was little, I had all the usual feelings of guilt. I was very conscious of God watching everything I did. Until I was eleven or twelve, I believed the devil was in my basement and I would run up the stairway fast so he wouldn't grab my ankles. We had the kind of stairway where there were spaces between each step...
Other potential bidders may be scared away by the thought that if Murdoch could not make the paper profitable, no one can. In his quest to put the Post in the black, Murdoch transformed a liberal if tired tabloid into a manic, grab-'em-by-the-lapels paper that jolted readers with apocalyptic headlines. If newsprint could talk, the Post would be the loudest paper in the country. A rambunctious student upsets a teacher? Read all about it in last Wednesday's edition under MOTORMOUTH MENACE MADE ME QUIT. If the Post had not been so uncharacteristically silent about...
...same thing, the same annoying symptoms. I know that the fever has hit when I get that first urge to rip my normally rather inoffensive down coat into shreds. Then there are those mornings when I stand despondent in front of my closet for hours, yearning to grab a pair of shorts, but knowing that 45 degree really merits corduryos. Spring fever even affects my literary sensibilities making me leap with murderous intent toward anyone who darea to mention T.S. Ehat and April in one breath...
...spectacular defensive plays later--a line drive snag by second baseman Mary Baldauf and a sliding grab by right fielder Janet Dickerman--and Harvard had nailed down the victory...