Word: ops
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...excitement at being a household word right now, and he is handling it with the respectable glee and half (but only that) the mocking humor of a sort of cutup prince regent. He is talking to Stanley Kubrick about playing Napoleon, to Bernardo Bertolucci about being the Continental Op in a film of Dashiell Hammett's Red Harvest. Milos Forman is waiting for him to finish Fortune, so he can start playing McMurphy in an adaptation of Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. At no time since the burnished '30s has Hollywood...
William Safire, former public relations man, former White House speechwriter (he coined "nattering nabobs of negativism"), for the past 15 months has been the New York Times 's house conservative. In his columns which appear on the newspaper's Op-Ed page, he has occasionally defended the President wittily and cogently, and has sometimes even criticized the White House (especially for bugging his telephone when he was in residence). More often, he has nitpicked the testimony of Richard Nixon's accusers or shot at them with dum dum bullets. Last week he went stalking after Leon Jaworski...
...three fedayeen groups are op posed, including the militant Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Its leader, George Habash, was barred from Cairo last week by Egyptian officials be cause he also wants to overthrow such conservative Arab leaders as President Sadat's friend and ally, Saudi Arabian King Faisal. Arafat could easily win a vote on the mini-Palestine issue. Meet ings droned on, however, as he sought to shape a consensus without losing dis senters. "Wishes are one thing," Egyptian Editor Salah Gawdah observed last week, "but what is feasible is another...
...allure of the co-op program has enabled the school to attract a unique student body. In contrast to the rest of the university, which serves as a community college for students in the Boston area, the law school's standards for admission are rigorous. This year, from a pool of about 3100 applicants, NE will accept from 300 to 350 students to fill the 125 spots in its incoming class. The admissions committee, composed of three students, three faculty members and the director of admissions, uses the traditional criteria of grade-point average and LSAT scores, with one exception...
...women. Also, he says, "because people are older and have been through a variety of occupations, they bring a reservoir of energy and resources that other law schools lack." Flym says the cooperative program is particularly valuable because it "equalizes the power of students and faculty. The co-op also means I need to work harder, because students demand more. With legal education based on actual experience, the student can judge for himself the value of the education he's receiving...