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Regardless of whether he was serious about the board scores idea. Bok will no doubt take pains, if necessary, to explain away his brainstorm and to convince those who count that he is not one to hold his nose in the air. The hullaballoo will die down and, with a few more public statements. Bok may find himself where he apparently set out to be at the forefront of a movement to maintain national support of colleges and graduate schools. Without much straining, it is possible to envision Bok turning a sticky situation to his advantage if things...
...weeks, the assistant director finally gave Kats the letter, telling him. "You'll be sorry." Two months later, as Kats was walking home one day at noon, three clean-cut young men jumped him only thirty meters from a police station. He suffered a concussion, fractured skull and broken nose. To date, the police have found no suspects...
...early hope of persuading Israel and the moderate Arab states to subordinate their enmities to a "strategic consensus" against Soviet penetration of the area died long ago. Since then, says one disgruntled U.S. policymaker, the American attitude has been "Don't face anything until someone rubs our nose in it." It is a posture that has won no friends. A long series of mild and ineffectual rebukes to Israel-about the bombing of both the Iraqi nuclear reactor and Beirut last summer and the de facto annexation of the Golan Heights-has angered moderate Arabs far more than...
...been one of the depressed areas of the major leagues. Though the first season brought out a million and a half customers, attendance had fallen to 534,672 by 1975. Then the entrepreneurial yachtsman Ted Turner took possession and began to ride ostriches and push baseballs (with his nose) around the base paths...
Typical was the initial response of Inger McCabe Elliott, 49, president of the New York-based China Seas fabric and wallpaper firm (1981 sales: about $5 million): "My nose is too close to the grindstone to run around in women's rights groups." She later joined. Said she after attending the Los Angeles meeting: "I felt I was among equals...