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Your story of December 10 on leading candidates for the presidency of Harvard fails to grasp the remarkable achievements of James Freedman at Dartmouth College. Quite simply, during his short term of office he has reaffirmed that institution's intellectual vigor and its faith in itself after 10 years of consistently vituperative battering at the hands of the Dartmouth Review...
...Parliament, Major was elected in 1979 to represent Huntingdon. He is said to have first caught Thatcher's eye when he engaged her in a blazing dinner debate on economic policy. As Chief Secretary to the Treasury from 1987 to July 1989, Major gained a reputation for his quick grasp of complex issues and steady nerves. Later as Chancellor he combined with Douglas Hurd to persuade Thatcher to take Britain into the E.C.'s Exchange Rate Mechanism, an achievement of considerable political agility...
...best qualification for a man who now may have to cajole Congress, bureaucrats and foreign leaders. "He has talents," said the Miami Herald in an editorial last week, "but persuasiveness is not high among them." If he assumes the post of drug czar, Martinez will need to grasp the drug problem in all its dimensions. Until then, it will be an open question whether he is the man for the job -- or just a man who needed...
...things, not just upward mobility." Jackson got no firm answer, nor did he expect one. He carries the question with him wherever he travels to make people think again about what they may have lost and what they really treasure. He seeks a new generation that can find and grasp the "great and priceless privilege" that Dwight Eisenhower, perhaps the most beloved and respected American of this century, found in Abilene...
...find the visual argot of advertising, news photography, graffiti or comic strips in the work of the great Apollonians of the past hundred years, from Monet and Matisse to Richard Diebenkorn. But this vernacular, Gopnik and Varnedoe rightly argue, is essential to a grasp of Cubism, Dada, Russian Constructivism, Surrealism and their European offshoots, along with a great deal of American art produced after...