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Darman's ascendancy is all the more intriguing for his Eastern Establishment background. The oldest child of a New England industrialist, Darman earned his B. A. and a master's degree in business administration from Harvard and entered Government during the Nixon years under the tutelage of his fellow Brahmin, Elliot Richardson. Darman's various jobs in five Cabinet departments included a stint at Commerce, where he impressed Baker, then an Assistant Secretary, with his ability to analyze vast tangles of information. Baker chose Darman in 1981 as his assistant, says Press Spokesman Larry Speakes, because...
...when a Soviet laboratory purchases his prodigious production of spermatozoa for the greater glory of Communist science. In Kangaroo the author satirizes the false and often absurd confessions that were made at show trials during the Stalin era. Here an engaging professional crook admits to the rape of the oldest kangaroo in the Moscow...
LONG BEFORE America's oldest monthly changed its look and format, there were long faces and knowing smiles in the magazine world. Rumor had it that Lewis Lapharm. Harper's former editor, had regained his job on the strength of a memo he wrote to Harper's board which outlined a proposal for a drastic change in the magazine's ideology. There were whispers that the economically troubled monthly was going to become a glorified op-ed page in an effort to become more commercially successful...
...about the changes at Williams after the frats were banned. When she first met her husband at Williams in 1946, "The campus was a wonderful place to live; fraternity and non-fraternity, the students were an enthusiastic bunch who enjoyed everything about college life." What a change now. "Our oldest son went to Williams in 1969, long after the end of the fraternity system, and when we spent some time there at various events, we found the change obvious and distressing. The college had become a think tank, grades were everything, and worst of all the students appered...
...IDEA may very well be the oldest idea in politics...