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...anti-communist dissident whowants to leave the country, MacFarquhar said. "Iadmire him for trying to put the country in theright direction. We are very keen on having himhere at Harvard," he said
...GINSBURG "dope" controversy led to an amusing turnaround in the American government. Democrats, normally not keen on the anti-drug fanatacism of the Reagan Administration, suddenly are assuming a position of moral outrage. Republicans, coming oft a seven-year tirade against the ingestion of anything besides caviar and water, suddenly are saying "just say occasionally...
...flaw in Deng's retirement plan was that he bet on the wrong man. His handpicked successor, Hu Yaobang, 72, a keen reformer, was dismissed as party leader in January for failing to control student demonstrators who were demanding freedom and democracy...
RICHARD MARIUS, director of the Expository Writing Program, offered some keen analysis of student writing in a recently released 20-plus-page report. It's worth remarking, though, that making assessments is only one of the responsibilities of the person most responsible for writing instruction here. If student writing is as poor as Marius evidently believes, the program he heads deserves more scrutiny than his report suggests...
...heard much of Bork's brilliance and intellect. There are many other minds roaming America's legal community at least equally as keen. Yet Robert Bork was the darling of the Reagan Administration, one of the first lawyers it put on the prestigious D.C. Court of Appeals and one of the first names on its short list of potential Supreme Court nominees...