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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...disappointed but not ashamed at being turned down by Harvard." said Starr, who is an historical and interpretive sociologist "I join a long list of of distinguished people down by Harvard Not a list that I mended to join, but an honorable list nonetheless...
Much of the rest of the world is at least very, very curious. In Japan, 200,000 copies of Iacocca have been sold in one month. It is first on the London Daily Mail's best-seller list, a bootleg edition is available in Bangkok, and the book is considered a must-read among the Saudi technocratic elite. Says Michigan Governor James Blanchard of his state's favorite son: "Iacocca is the most revered businessman in the world...
...dealing with foreign powers too the President has been self-confident and assertive. Secretary of State George Shultz last week had barely begun to list the pros and cons of the President's going to Moscow to attend the funeral of Konstantin Chernenko and meet the new Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, when, seeing Reagan's wry smile, he stopped and said to the President, "I can tell by the look on your face . . ." Reagan interjected, "Yes, but go on." To no one's surprise, the President decided not to go--because, explained a senior aide, Gorbachev "is not yet ready...
...little dictionary of received ideas about this engaging "primitive." It would begin with his nickname, the Douanier. (He was not, as MOMA's excellent catalog stresses, a customs inspector, but a much lowlier form of bureaucratic life, a gabelou, or toll collector.) The dictionary would go through a whole list of legendary things that Rousseau did not do or see or say, things he cooked up himself (such as the innocent fiction that he had been to Mexico in the army of Napoleon III and had seen real jungles) or that were invented by friends (like the playwright Alfred Jarry...
...preliminary vote two weeks age, the three finalists-who were determined from a list of 25 that included the Rev. Jesse Jackson and astronomer Carl Sagan-each received the same number of votes, in what Moses called "an incredible coincidence...