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...pages to realize that Ripley has had to / forfeit the novelist's right to create her own characters. Rhett Butler and Scarlett O'Hara sprang from everything Mitchell knew and felt about a time that was still fresh in her region's memory. Ripley's self-imposed handicap shows in the dialogue. Mitchell gave her sardonic hero the best lines, hard- bitten and vivid in the Raymond Chandler style. "I've seen eyes like yours above a dueling pistol," he says to Scarlett. "They evoke no ardor in the male breast." Ripley's Rhett is frequently wordy and inelegant...
...advantages of having a body of corporate board members must be balanced with the handicap of their homogeneity. The fact that the Corporation does more than just raise money means that more than just financial interests should be represented on the board. The board also approves and oversees many academic decisions, including new professorships and research programs. We hope--naively, perhaps--that the Corporation will fill its openings with some nontraditional choices...
Critics have chided Bush for not having a master plan or doctrine that will bear his name in the history books. So far, that has not been much of a handicap. No Big Think could have anticipated what happened in August. Everyone feared a conservative coup, but no one expected it would consummate the revolution...
...always in ferment, and a good thing too. The situation in our universities, I ; am confident, will soon right itself. But the impact of separatist pressures on our public schools is more troubling. If a Kleagle of the Ku Klux Klan wanted to use the schools to disable and handicap black Americans, he could hardly come up with anything more effective than the "Afrocentric" curriculum. And if separatist tendencies go unchecked, the result can only be the fragmentation, resegregation and tribalization of American life...
...public-private combine, wields a $2 million annual budget and a staff of 20 in a downtown high-rise, casting for new industries to balance the state's volatile energy base. "We tell people that humidity is good for the skin and that you can work on your golf handicap all year round," says Houston development chief John Brock. "It's hardball now. As bad times hit, everyone is discovering the benefits of economic development...