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...very bright, and it is absolutelyessential that somebody in the job [of dean of theCollege] have the credentials of an academic evenif he isn't one," says Bossert, who is also ArnoldProfessor of Science. "We [faculty members] speakto him and he speaks to us as an intellectualequal...
...house masters said they appreciate thatJewett lives on campus and therefore has a keenunderstanding of what their job entails. "Housemasters are not used to having their working daysend at 5 p.m., and he isn't either," Bossert says."House Masters walk into his office when enragedand he calms them down...
...Reagan avoids unpleasant confrontations, his wife is more hardheaded about staff failures and more willing to deal with them. "It's the eternal optimist in him," Nancy said of her husband a few years ago, "that if you let something go, it will eventually work itself out. Well, it isn't always...
...Aides Michael Deaver and James Baker, to whom she spoke several times a day by telephone. Regan simply did not have the patience and was not astute enough to realize that talking to Nancy was a part of his job. Says one Reagan intimate: "We all know that she isn't the easiest person to deal with. Regan never understood how to handle her. It has a lot to do with how he interacts with women." The chief of staff became notorious in the past two years for his remarks disparaging women's interests and intelligence. In the White House...
Just as the ceremony is about to take place, however, Sir Robert is mysteriously murdered by other means. An Inspector Harris appears to solve the case, and the ensuing chaos is pure Python bliss. The secrets of the Charles family are both surprising and hilarious, but this reviewer isn't telling anything...