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...delay in the operation. In the House, tempers flared over a remark by Congressman Les Aspin that the first U.S.-escorted convoy would sail July 22. Aspin, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, revealed the date after attending an Administration briefing. Republican Minority Leader Robert Michel accused Democrat Aspin of "unforgivable" behavior, but Aspin pointed out, correctly, that Republican Senator Robert Dole had also disclosed the date to reporters...
Neither Peale nor any other American painter of the late 18th century except Copley produced a masterpiece within his own field comparable to the architecture of Jefferson or to the legal and moral qualities of the Constitution. But by 1800 an answer to the haunting question posed by Michel- Guillaume-Jean de Crevecoeur -- "What then is the American, this new man?" -- was latent in the young Republic's art, and explicit in its architecture...
...very top of the list was Michel David-Weill, 54, a senior partner at the Manhattan-based Lazard Freres investment firm. According to FinancialWorld, David-Weill earned an estimated $125 million last year. He had pulled down only an estimated $50 million in 1985. (Lazard Freres disputes the 1986 FinancialWorld figure, arguing that David-Weill earned only somewhere between $65 million and $75 million last year...
...proposal was especially palatable because it "very much fits the Harvard conception" of a concentration, carefully modeled on the Social Studies and History and Literature concentration, Michel adds...
Professors say changes in strategy, and tactics are responsible for faculty unanimity on the issue. "We allayed people's fears," Michel says. "It wasn't so foreign, not something put on from the outside, but something which came from within...