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...ever present spiral notebook and later distills them into well-reasoned, easily digested, single-page memos or brief oral reports to Reagan, just as he has been doing since 1967, when he first joined the Governor's staff. Says Edward Thomas, Meese's chief aide: "He can hash out a complex issue until it can be stated as simply as A, B, C. It puts the Governor right at ease." After Jan. 20, Meese will perform much the same role as coordinator of the inner circle of Cabinet-level officials...
...submit its recommendations to Bok by January 1. Currently, the committee--which includes Archie C. Epps III, dean of students: Edward L. Keenan, dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences; Nancy Randolph, special assistant to Bok; and three undergraduate representatives--is interviewing University officials and will soon hash out substantive models. Gomes' preliminary proposals, which he stressed are far from finalized, suggested three possible models--one patterns after the Institute of Politics, one after Radcliffe's Education for Action, and one after Phillips Brooks House...
Staff Sergeant Joseph Cerce, 30, stares at the three gold hash marks on his left sleeve. Each represents three years in the Army, and Cerce does not plan to add a fourth. He will retire next March. Says Cerce: "The Army has changed for the worse. It's not a patch on what it used...
...myths were elaborately, even bizarrely, vengeful. In the Inferno, Dante's Deity was satanically inventive in making the vengeance fit the crime. The best tragic theater (Hamlet, for example) and some of the worst has been built around the deep urge to settle someone's hash. In an orgy of horrific finality and emotional overstatement, Medea murders her two sons and hurls their corpses at Jason. That, God knows, ought to teach...
...your Essay on frugality [March 3] and the "waste not" philosophy, you neglected to point out that all those wonderful virtues, such as making leftover chicken hash, turning collars and sewing stockings, were performed by tireless live-in grandmas and stay-at-home, father-knows-best housewives. Women now work, and hours can't be recycled. Besides, you can't darn the heels of a pair of pantyhose...