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...fact announced that all conversations will be recorded? (Ultra secrets could be whispered in a bug-free cubicle in some other White House corner.) Then set up another rule: that no tape will be released for 50 years or while any participant is alive. Two immediate advantages leap to mind. Presidents might clean up their language. Visitors would not feel betrayed...
...history; when has any closet liberal popped out and changed the policies of a major corporation? With the possible single exception of Ludwig (who is really part of the past era of corporate dictators anyway) and his Jarl complex in Brazil, no one has enacted any such a moral leap for the benefit of mankind. On the other hand, Jesus Christ and Mohammed didn't do so bad, but divinity is even harder to obtain than an acceptance letter from the Harvard B-School...
When he won a phenomonal battle over long-time nemesis Russ Hartman with a 24ft 7 1/4 in leap at Northeastern, at finally became apparent that this was going to be Johnson's year...
...agreed in 1978 to the removal of discrimination, and the constitutional proposals again contain that, so we could not really object to it now. I don't think you have any concept of the jump that had to be taken here. It was a giant leap with the crocodile's jaws waiting for us. The current proposals do not go as far as we would have wished with regard to minority [white] protection. But the present constitution contains a provision that opens the possibility for minorities to win seats that they might otherwise have lost. It also contains...
...Sunday of every Freshman Week, President Horner advises incoming Yardlings to take Hellman's advice and "keep cool but do not freeze." The AWACS telex incident suggests that she might do well to add "Look before you leap" to her repertoire of useful maxims. Advocacy in the interests of raising the level of public debate befits a University president well But posturing in the absence of expertise does no one any good...