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...very little real power. Corporation response to ACSR recommendations--often formed with the best of intentions--has historically been pitiful. But the ACSR has officially invited all who are interested to knock on its door tonight and make their opinions known. The offer is no more than a morsel, and, if we expect the beliefs of the student body ever to reach the Corporation and have an effect on its policy decisions, a morsel, no matter how tasty, will not do the trick. Nevertheless, experience shows that if the Corporation responds at all on the investment question, it responds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Make ACSR Listen | 4/7/1981 | See Source »

...mouse. This was accomplished by coaxing the rodent to ingest healthy portions of Gouda cheese and then making it laugh. Predictably, the food went down the wrong pipe, and choking occurred. Grasping the mouse firmly by the tail, I snapped it like a small whip, and the morsel of cheese came loose. Shulamith and I made voluminous notes on the experiment. If we can transfer the tailsnap procedure to humans, we may have something. Too early to tell...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: More Kugelmass | 10/3/1980 | See Source »

...worth all the prior trauma and trouble. To have a baby, she urges, read what you will and then do what seems best. What seems best is to start by reading Cole and heeding her sound counsel. To live with the baby, she says, "savor every morsel of motherhood as it comes along...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Honest Labor | 5/12/1980 | See Source »

...Japan, scores of reporters and cameramen had converged on the town to be on hand for the birth of Baby Brown. Despite pleas from the doctors that the hullabaloo was endangering both mother and child, journalists steadfastly prowled the hospital's precincts. They were seeking any morsel of news. Perhaps a brief word with one of the doctors responsible for the Brown experiment: Patrick Steptoe, who came and went daily in his white Mercedes, dodging in and out of the hospital's side doors to avoid the press. Or a chat with the equally elusive father. Or, scoop of scoops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The First Test-Tube Baby | 7/31/1978 | See Source »

Kennedy does not have to probe very deeply to find in Daley the spirit of an Irish warrior chieftain. Gaelic legend has a mother feeding the weaning morsel to such an infant with the tip of his father's sword: no better means to teach the proper ways of life and death. To Daley, politics was unremitting combat. Once attained, power could not be shared because sharing would tempt others to become chieftains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mayorissimo | 4/3/1978 | See Source »

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