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Next month, as he departs to become provost of the University, he leaves a school on the mend but not fully recovered from a series of abrupt leadership changes and its own too-rapid expansion in the 1980s...
Bill Clinton has never really hit it off with Daniel Patrick Moynihan, but now he needs him. That's why the President had to pick up the phone in the White House last Wednesday night and mend fences -- not for the first time -- with the brilliant and unpredictable New York Senator. Clinton called to deny news reports that he was "exasperated" with Moynihan's lack of movement on health-care legislation. Never mind that the reports were accurate and that Senate majority leader George Mitchell shared the President's frustration. Clinton recognizes that Moynihan's Finance Committee now represents...
...these details add up to an unfinished project. Many such giltches would be simple to mend, but until they are, the transportation of time and place of this visually arresting production is needlessly undermined. At a more fundamental level, misplaced dramatic pretensions in comedy simply create confusion...
Everyone is an optimist on opening day. There must be a saying that the grass is always greenest on opening day. The 35-year old free agent pick-up will hit 35 homers and really will be worth his three million-dollar price tag. All injuries will mend in three to six weeks. The Red Sox really will steal bases...
Chinese authorities insisted that relations between Washington and Beijing were on the mend until Assistant Secretary of State John Shattuck met with dissident Wei Jingsheng two weeks ago. Last week Christopher was unapologetic. "We cannot accept any restrictions on meetings between our diplomats and officials and Chinese citizens who are not accused of crimes," he said through a spokesman. "We cannot accept punishment and intimidation of those Chinese who choose to meet with...