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From the student perspective, however, the view is considerably more mixed. Since the dean search began last May, it has been clear that President Bok was not going to have much time or inclination to solicit student opinions on this important appointment. Save for a Bok luncheon with a few selected student leaders last fall, the whole affair was entirely excluded from the province of this large Harvard constituency...
...greatest recoveries in history." At a press briefing in November, White House Press Secretary Larry Speakes told reporters that the President and Secretary Regan "obviously don't agree" with Feldstein. He also pointedly announced that Feldstein had been excluded that day from a White House economic policy luncheon. Told that Feldstein was, in fact, present at the session, Speakes quipped, "Maybe he won't make it to dessert...
...Secretary of the Interior Watt's best efforts, Speakes, last week hinted at the possible firing of Martin S. Feldstein, Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors. The press secretary made fun of Feldstein's name, and speculated that the Chairman, who was then at a high-level economic luncheon, was at a "last supper," at which he might not last "through dessert...
...Chairman would be asked to resign. Speakes replied, "I do not think they will actually ask him to resign, I don't think they will ask him face to face." But then the secretary revealed that he thought Feldstein had been excluded from a high level economic luncheon that was going on at the time. When a reporter noted that Feldstein was in fact in attendance, Speakes gallantly sent an aide to find out why. When the aide returned, Speakes read his note silently, mouthing the words "last supper" to the general mirth of those in attendance. Reporters then asked...
...wife and two young children. The parents' first anxiety developed even before the funeral Mass began: many of the worshipers entered the nave with cries of joy, and the celebrant, Father Paul Dalton, was clad in festive mod vestments. The rite began like a Chamber of Commerce luncheon, as worshipers were urged to introduce themselves. In his homily, Dalton reported that as the husband lay dying, it was the wife, not the priest, who anointed him with sacramental oil. At the Communion, both Catholics and non-Catholics went forward to receive the consecrated bread and wine...