Word: malines
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lucky," shrugs Malin, and he repeats it about the New York taxicab incident which finally landed him the Cosmos job. The explanations he offers for his luck are uniformly sketchy people needed a good voice knowledge able about soccer, foreign sportscasters like the absence of all but a trace of an Irish brogue, and one thing led to another...
...example Malin likes to use for the way "everything keeps intertwining" is the month's leave of absence he took from admissions last fall. For the first few weeks he was in Australia announcing the Junior World Soccer Cup for 19-years-olds and under. Returning to the States, he had just enough time to catch his breath before leaving for Germany as one of nine educators invited by the German government to conduct a seminar on educational and admission problems. And while he was there, he adds almost gleefully, he found time to take a trip to Frankfurt...
...officer of the director of financial aid, which is decorated with only a few modest soccer-related pictures and a large portrait photo of Malin's predecessor, has changed a good deal since the last time Malin sat there, five years ago. The "threat of impeding bureaucracy" that was one of his strong incentives to get out of the job in 1977 now is in full flood...
...practice of tacking monetary penalties onto financial aid students--up to $400 can be transferred from grant to self-help funds--has predictably drawn criticism, and Malin acts partly apologetic, partly defensive about the innovation. Though "we would never have dreamed" of charging penalties during his tenure, the new system has reduced later registration "vastly." down as much as 50 from a previous 100 and a ripple effect bon of the knowledge that "we've started cracking the whip" is expected to have even greater psychological influence "by the time we get the senior class out of here." Malin says...
...needs tests for Guaranteed Student Loans (GSLS), which must be explained over and over throughout the year, there is the constant uncertainly over how much of each of Harvard's overlapping and interlocking programs will survive each week of conflicting predictions. "We talk about it in staff meetings, says Malin, "but it's difficult, actually downright Quixotic, for even the most devoted followers to keep up with what's happening...