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...wanted to pursue, he endeavored to present his case as cogently and unemotionally as possible. At a meeting last week at Phillips Brooks House, when he raised the question of collaboration after a lecture on the holocaust, he was shouted down and insulted. "I have no axe to grind. And if I have shown you one thing, it is, I hope, that I am perhaps only half-crazy...
...reported. "A large number of the students live at home," so there was "none of the gay dormitory life which is so distinctive a feature at most women's colleges." An atmosphere of "thought and study invests Radcliffe," Bennett wrote, but "no girl is proud of being called a 'grind...
Though a plum assignment for journalists, traveling with Kissinger is also a grind. State Department Correspondent John Mulliken, who has gone on three major journeys with the Secretary of State since September and contributed to this week's cover story, notes that a day of shuttle diplomacy often starts at 4 a.m. That is the hour that baggage must be ready for X-ray examination by the Secret Service. On board the plane, Kissinger routinely briefs correspondents but rarely allows himself to be quoted directly. "Of course," says Mulliken, "no one is fooled by the titles that are used...
...state that Professor Coase is "a British economist with no discernible political ax to grind." Maybe so. Nevertheless, I strongly suspect that he isn't a member (or honorary member) of, say, the A.D.A. Economists, including this one, do have political viewpoints...
...crash. I didn't know that you are supposed to sit on top of the bike and let it slide on the road under you. There is a reason that you are supposed to sit on top of the bike. There is also a reason that they make grind stones out of rock and that sort of thing. I sanded about a quarter inch off my butt in that fall, and could not sit down for a week. I guess that I was kind of lucky though, because I skidded between the posts of a guard rail at a good...