Word: michael
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...Punch Columnist Alan Coren, The Collected Bulletins of President Idi Amin and its sequel, The Further Bulletins etc., have sold 750,000 copies. Within the past year, at least four fictional thrillers (Target Amin, The Killing of Idi Amin, Excellency and Crossfire) and a play (For the West, by Michael Hastings), dealing either with Amin or with Amin-like dictators, have appeared in London. The plots of these works tend to focus on assassination. Amin, of course, is also a central figure in the numerous books and films about the daring Israeli rescue operation at Entebbe in July...
...schools shown in the film are mainly in Massachusetts, where a bill to provide equal education for the handicapped was put into effect in 1974, becoming the model for the federal act. Since that Massachusetts bill became law, says Michael Daly, deputy commissioner of the state's department of education, the system has fairly successfully absorbed 50,000 students who need special education...
...least one educator, Massachusetts' Michael Daly, is confident that most of the fears of parents and teachers are overstated. "What the states are saying to the Federal Government is exactly what the local schools were saying to the state of Massachusetts a few years ago: 'It's impossible; we can't do it,' " says Daly. "But the fact is, we are doing it. Many of those kids are now in school with their brothers and sisters...
...maybe he is. At least, that's the impression the reader gets from The Gamesman, psychologist Michael Maccoby '54's latest entry in the pop sociology derby. Maccoby's book is an interesting profile of what he calls the new American corporate elite, a series of case studies designed to illustrate exactly just what type of person runs the companies thatrun your life. Maccoby's answer--that American companies are presided over by a passel of hyperactive, hypercool chess players who are only in the business world for the thrill of the sport--may sound a bit farfetched...
...year, both sides remained intractable, but pressure mounted to reach an out of court agreement, instead of a protracted court battle that would drain both the Indians' and the whites' resources. Late last June, Gov. Michael S. Dukakis announced the appointment of Albert M. Sacks, dean of the Law School, as a state mediator. Sacks had a preliminary meeting with both sides in July, then left to fulfill another commitment, returning in August to continue the talks...