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Stanley said he would spend two years in Honolulu in "a period of immersion--learning Hawaiian and reading the secondary literature--which is not extensive." At the same time, Stanley will maintain some contact with Harvard, directing a $66,000 grant project given to the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research by the Luce Foundation. The grant project has two parts: it will fund Stanley's research on a new book about the future of Philippine-American relations, and it will finance a study group of Philippine scholars to discuss this topic. Stanley will lead the study group, which will...
Other objections: joint custody usually requires parents who are affluent enough to maintain separate bedrooms for children, who are constantly willing to negotiate and who live in the same general neighborhood or school district. If a divorce is contested in the courts, the arrangement is often impossible...
...Liaison Office. But conservatives will berate Carter for terminating the defense treaty with Taiwan. Barry Goldwater's office is cranking up bills to restrict the President's power to end treaties. "We will seek assurances on Taiwan," says Kansas Republican Robert Dole, who wants to maintain a U.S. Liaison Office on the island. He foresees a Senate slugfest on the issue: "There will be feathers all over the place, Byrd's and others' "-meaning Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd...
...anyone the litanies of corruption, intimidation, and dictatorial control by Teamster bosses that can turn the Teamsters into dissidents. But at the same time, Brill entertains few illusions about the power of American Dream-style prosperity, on the order of $28,000 a year, to undercut reform and maintain the status...
...would be unfair to expect any musician to maintain the hot-and-bothered pace of Costello's first two albums, and Armed Forces does have its share of rockers--"Goon Squad" and "Accidents Will Happen" in particular carry on the tradition. But all over the new album there are signs of his evolution towards more versatile music-making. He's always had a touch of the middle-of-the-road about him--he recorded a Burt Bacharach number on a live anthology last year. "What's So Funny About Peace, Love and Understanding," a Nick Lowe song which Costello belts...