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What then is it about Hanks, 31, that has prompted comparisons with such old-fashioned leading men as Cary Grant, Jimmy Stewart and Jack Lemmon? "A tremendous sense of timing and great believability," says Larry Brezner, producer of The 'Burbs, the movie Hanks is now shooting. "He picks out the character and stays with it until the bitter end. Tom's better at acting funny than funny acting. He's an actor first and a comedian second...
Most of Washington, including a growing number of his fellow conservatives, wishes the Attorney General would quietly leave the field. But like General Ulysses Grant, a warrior Meese greatly admires, he seems determined, as Grant said down in Virginia, "to fight it out on this line, if it takes all summer." On that he is backed up so far by the President, who is being placed yet again in the awkward position of choosing between what is best for his presidency and protecting a loyal spear carrier...
...former Senator John Culver have had stints there. The rigorous Mid-Career Public Administration program has come to be known as the "mid-life crisis program." The school is also suspect as a relatively painless way to give a Harvard gloss to an undergraduate degree from a land-grant college and for its networking possibilities. Says a participant: "Where else can a former mayor from Waco, Texas, sit around and chat with former Governors and Senators and attend classes taught by Presidential Scholar Richard Neustadt?" Even government officials seek the school's cachet: a staffer jokes that he heard...
HARVARD'S recently announced investigation of campus Black fraternities and sororities is as Kappa Alpha Psi President Jay Grant '89 put it, "hilarious...
Another debate that has embroiled the campus in recent years focuses on the role of the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace. Founded in 1919 with a $50,000 grant from Herbert Hoover, the semi-independent research center is officially dedicated to demonstrating the "evils of the doctrine of Karl Marx," and has long functioned as a conservative think tank. Its close ties to the Reagan Administration have prompted protests from faculty members who wish either to bring the institution under tighter academic governance or to obtain a divorce. Tensions between the Stanford faculty and Hoover flared last year...