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Because of the harsh wording of the termination letter, which charged Kohutka with "poor judgement and inexcusable behavior" (residential property manager Kenneth Daly later said he had broken a "moral code"), Kohutka was unable to get a new job. Even the unemployment office told him that it was his "own fault" he had been fired and that he would have to wait six weeks for his first check...
...tenacious, dogged apostle of points of view, but is mature enought to modify or correct his point of view when opposing arguments prevail." Schelling points out that the dean's position often shrouds his inner self. "A lot of people probably find him a little distant, harsh, overbearing, or thick-skinned. To do his job he has to be--most of us are not good at giving people bad news, but as dean he is fully responsible for all the hard decisions," Schelling says, evoking questions about the island of Timor arrangement...
Outside in the harsh sunshine, bookmobile workers ply everybody with posters and pins promoting-what else?-reading. Postal Carrier Wendell Brown emerges blinking at the cover of Louis L'Amour's The Burning Hills and waits for his wife Pat, who steps out bearing another L'Amour, The Lonely Men. Says Pat: "I got it for him." A well-fed matron waddles off with the Joy of Cooking...
...harsh criticism of the U.S., Iran's highly visible Foreign Minister, Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, has actually been a moderating influence within his country's government. As new Prime Minister Mohammed Ali Raja 'i was busy choosing his Cabinet last week, Ghotbzadeh sent an extraordinary letter to the Majlis (parliament), warning that a trial of the 52 U.S. hostages "would be against the national interest, "and urging a speedy, negotiated resolution of the crisis. Since the Majlis is dominated by fundamentalist Muslims of the Islamic Republic Party, many of whom want to prosecute some of the hostages as spies...
...modeling business has long been the arena for some of the fiercest and most feline competition in the U.S. Rarely has the competition been more savage than today, when top models can, and do, switch agencies almost as often as they change costumes, often at the drop of a harsh word or a seductive whisper...