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...told him I was prepared to face this; the alternative was a deterioration that might lead to a war involving the security of my own country. Political considerations?even the loss of some friendships?were not my paramount concern. I reminded him that Sadat had urged me to be a full partner and that I saw no possibility of progress if the U.S. should withdraw and leave the negotiations to the Egyptians and Israelis, who did not trust each other and often admitted an absence of even mutual respect. I noted that when Sadat had arrived at Camp David...
Okada's troubles began in 1972 when, as Mitsukoshi's newly elected president, he developed a taste for high living. Despite his flair for public relations and his reputation as a supersalesman, Okada's autocratic ways angered his colleagues. In Japan, paramount value is placed on a business leader's ability to manage by "consensus," or group agreement on company policies and tactics. But, griped one Tokyo banker close to the company, "Okada became a dictator." Though married, with three children, Okada became a target for Tokyo tabloids, which began publishing breathless accounts of his private...
...opposite way; professionalism, if you like. Pay the college athletes straight out and abandon this pretense of amateurism. As a memo drafted by the American Council on Education--a Washington-based higher education group--observed. "A paramount advantage of this...option is that it confronts the hypocrisy of the present-system and puts big-time programs on an honest and straightforward basis." True enough, yet not only would such a professionalism never come around, but it also seems a bastardization of what we seek from our institutions of higher learning...
...ability, as a white person, to teach the course. Kenyatta wrote a letter to Chambers in mid-May, in which he outlined his group's perspective: "Shortly after learning of this proposed arrangement, the BLSA executive committee met and carefully considered the matter in light of several relevant factors. Paramount among these is BLSA's desire that Constitutional Law and Minority Issues be taught in its entirety by a minority professor." The Law School's Third World Coalition was perhaps more blatant. The group's open statement in late May called for a "Third World professor" to teach the course...
...rock-hard perennial Jack LaLanne, start the TV day with exhortations to slim down and tone up. At the movies, the new actresses are quirky and resourceful, and so are the characters they play. "The old image of a star actress," says Larry Mark, vice president of production at Paramount Pictures, "was of a beautiful woman lounging in her peignoir, popping bonbons while she painted her toenails. Now it's a taut body in shorts doing jumping jacks. Juiciness is out; angularity...