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Reaching the Ames Competition represents one of the "highest honors attainable" in the Law School, according to the Handbook for Entering Students 1977. The two teams are composed of six students each, two oralists and four who write the brief. The judges name the winning team, the best oralist and the best brief...
There is, of course, no handbook on how to be a successful President. Every Chief Executive has had to blend his special strengths into a formula for leadership. Franklin Roosevelt prided himself on his ability to charm and convince. Truman had a remarkable sense of history, and he had good-sense guts. Ike had perhaps the most refined sense of honor of any modern President. He trusted the system, he trusted the American people, and they in turn returned that trust. John Kennedy had style, some substance and a lot of combativeness. Nixon knew power and the world...
East West Journal is, in short, a periodical re-vamped in this month's issue into averitable treasure chest of Handy Hints for the modern world-caretaker. All in all, this creation is somewhat akin to the union of People magazine and a macrobiotic mystic's handbook--a sort of Zen and the art of togetherness manual. The sort of reading-matter you pick up to read as they're charging up the groceries. Check-out-counter spiritualism...
...liberties issue. This has been recognized by a number of groups who actively support the movement for freedom of sexual and affectional preference. Supporting groups include the American Civil Liberties Union, the National Organization for Women, the American Friends Service Committee and many churches. The ACLU has published a handbook outlining the rights of Gay people against archaic oppressive laws still existing in some states...
...prejudiced and superficial. Yet in becoming a better paper, it lost some of its raffishness and bracing cynicism, as well as those headlines that popped at you like bubble gum, all of which made the News the subway straphanger's bible and the cabby's handbook. Until now Murdoch has done little more than to add gossip and horse-racing tips to the Post, but, feeling the competition, the News is recapturing some of its own past liveliness, without sacrificing seriousness...