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...star status of rear admiral when he became the Navy's director of long-term planning (a new three-star job would have required congressional confirmation, an impossibility now). Sometime in mid-June, he will face what, for a man of his reclusive temperament, might seem the worst ordeal of all: testifying before television cameras for the congressional select committees investigating Iranscam. And though he will be granted limited immunity, there is still a possibility that Independent Counsel Lawrence Walsh may ask a grand jury to indict him on the basis of evidence gathered before the congressional questioning begins. Rumors...
...hand, which he learned to write with after coming home to Russell, Kans., a horribly wounded veteran of the war against Nazi Germany. It took three years, seven operations and months in a plaster cast that encased him from neck to waist for him to recover. Compared with that ordeal, says Dole's younger brother Kenny, "running for President will be a piece of cake...
LAST WEEK freshmen chose their roommates and turned in their rooming group forms. House-mania '87--the now three-week ordeal of selecting a place to live for the next three years--has only just begun. It's a seemingly endless process that forces freshmen to spend their time choosing houses instead of choosing majors and studying house stereotypes instead of studying for midterms...
...current system's most visible fault--unnecessary complexity--works to create the more substantial problem of homogeneity within the houses. As the weeks drag on, the importance of where one will live seems to increase; the more time devoted to the house-selecting process, the more important the whole ordeal appears. And since freshmen--barricaded in the Yard and consequently isolated from the houses--have little idea of what house life is really like, they are all too likely to get caught up in the lottery hysteria and give undue weight to stereotypes and indeed, to the entire issue...
Even a boisterous crowd of Pudding lovers willing to shell out $50 a seat was unable to generate much enthusiasm for this three-hour ordeal. The audience began getting restless from the start and on one occasion during the second act a particularly loathsome joke yielded a lone cackle from the back...