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Women In Development, The Malawi Experience: Prospects for the Future--by Esther Mede, senior deputy principal secretary, Office of the President and cabinet, UAM secretariat, Malawi, and fellow, Mason Program in Public iPolicy and Management, HIIDand KSG., Fourth Floor Conference Room, One Eliot...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: At Harvard | 3/12/1992 | See Source »

...Mede is another man's Persian, as George S. Kaufman once remarked, and as Ronald Reagan discovered last week. Within a day after telling what his wife Nancy called "the ethnic joke to end all ethnic jokes," Reagan found himself forced to apologize to anyone who might have taken offense. Reagan's joke: "How do you tell the Polish one at a cockfight?" "He's the one with the duck." "How do you tell the Italian?" "He bet on the duck." "How do you know the Mafia is there?" "The duck wins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Duck! | 3/3/1980 | See Source »

...plays hold up? It is difficult to tell from reading them. The right actors, stage business and timing are essential to their success. In Kaufman's offstage humor there is the persistent delight of his famous pun, "One man's Mede is another man's Persian." But there is also an unleavened cruelty. After one of Dorothy Parker's unsuccessful suicide attempts, he remarked, "Dorothy, you've got to be careful. Next time you might hurt yourself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Late George Aptly | 6/19/1972 | See Source »

...second papal change touched on the sore issue of Biblical error. Catholic Biblical scholars admit that on a factual level the Bible does make mistakes-Daniel, for example, calls King Darius a Mede when he was certainly a Persian. The drafters of the decree on revelation wrote that the Bible presents "salvific truth"-that is, the right knowledge of those things concerned with man's salvation. Pope Paul insisted that salvific be dropped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vatican Council: The Uses of Ambiguity | 11/5/1965 | See Source »

...tournament was the year's first competition for the 25-member Harvard Judo Club, coached by six-time New England champion Edmund Mede...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Judoka Gains 1st Place | 12/1/1964 | See Source »

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