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...phemomenon is not original to the Reagan administration. More than one president has swept into office on a wave of anti-govenment sentiment. When Carter arrived in the capital, his keen distrust of the natives undobtedly miffed more than one D.C. veteran. But Reagan's attacks on government cut deeper-they denounce not merely the efficiency but the very raison d'etre of fistfuls of government agencies...
...Some of the things I do, I am not keen on myself for doing," Whitaker admits. He has a clear conscience, however, about the anorexia story, which ran under the banner IS IT ALL GETTING TOO MUCH FOR DIANA? RUBBISH! countered the rubbishy News of the World. Thunderous denunciations of one another's outrages are standard among Fleet Street papers, and no one takes offense, because it is all part of the game that readers follow with relish. Whitaker came out of the anorexia episode thinking well of himself. As the weeks went by and Diana did not appear...
British breakfast television is born, and the competition is keen...
...Renaissance Popes. In the past 1,500 years or so, the Vatican has amassed vast amounts of art in a way that has oscillated between the ravenous and the haphazard. There is a vague popular belief-which this show is careful not to disturb-that the Popes were always keen patrons of the best art of their time. It is quite untrue...
...discrepancy between the Harvard Hell of the Crimson editorial page and the place almost everyone wants to come back to requires some perspective on the institution. The most convincing argument I've heard is that of Assistant Dean John Marquand, a University functionary since 1970 who has a keen interest in undergraduate society--in and out of the classroom. An administrator who goes out of his way to meet and assist students. Marquand believes that Harvard suffers from the unreasonably high expectations of students who come here anticipating the best education on earth and instant gratification in every endeavor. Once...