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...seriously. He refused to play the game by Harvard's rules of quiet civility, using his style as a hard-boiled tough egg, two-fisted beer drinking labor negotiator to keep his opponents off-balance. He took over a splintered Faculty in 1970 and in the next several years knit the deeply-rooted divisions back together, sending independent-minded reformers either into disarray or scurrying for the center. As Otto von Bismarck had once manipulated German liberals into supporting his reunification efforts, so did Harvard's Iron Chancellor unite most of the Faculty, restoring a certain reverence for his office...
...center in Los Angeles. So far, it has graduated 72 students; a new class of 600 will start the six-month, eight-hour-a-day course this fall. Perot says he prefers clean-cut ex-Navymen like himself. "I want people to identify with me, to create a closely knit team, rather than the lone wolves that characterize Wall Street," he says. Every duPont graduate has to sign a definitive employment contract that constrains him from leaving the firm for at least a year. But Perot can freely fire those employees who stray from the code of the pack...
Externally, in fact, the Divine Light Club resembles no one so much as another better-known tightly-knit religious group: The Harvard-Radcliffe Christian Fellowship. At another level, the psychic attractions of the two groups seem to be similar. In members of both one finds a wide-eyed sense of salvation under the veneer of conformity and an eagerness to expound on the glory of it all. Like their Christian counterparts, they speak of the security that knowledge gives...
Hale Champion, vice president for Financial Affairs, wearing a fancy yellow-knit shirt, chirped in helpfully, "I should tell you, I have the Athletic Department budget on my desk...
...collars peek out from under dresses and loose turtleneck sweaters. Tweedy vests and jackets were another variation. Lagerfeld also introduced an even more elaborate version of the layered look, with shirts worn one atop the other, or even with a sweater separating them. Kenzo's designs included fitted knit pullovers and cardigans in salt-and-pepper colors, sweaters in snowflake designs, and so-called "sloppy joes"-loose, bulky garments bloused at the hips. These are meant to be worn with long, ruffled peasant skirts with tiny vertical pleats and-of all things -crinolines underneath...