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...request for written comments by Faculty members on his several models for the GSAS of the future was supposed to precipitate the kind of discussion that led to Rosovsky's last success-the Core Curriculum. In fact, from all reports, Rosovsky had pegged GSAS reform as his next pet project...
...President Bok's persuasion prevailed over other forces, and he turned down a post in the Carter administration to take the helm of the Kennedy School. Since then, he has presided over a period of vigorous expansion and sometimes vigorous controversy at the school that some have labeled the pet project of Bok's presidency...
...President Bok's persuasion prevailed over other forces, and he turned down a post in the Carter administration to take the helm of the Kennedy School. Since then, he has presided over a period of vigorous expansion and sometimes vigorous controversy at the school that some have labeled the pet project of Bok's presidency...
...Hollaston, an ex-colonial officer turned landscape painter. Alfgif finds himself beset by a nameless fear. He traces the source to supernatural broadcasts from "the Purpose," which may be the devil, or simply a pantheistic deity. Alfgif gets a lot of help from a winsome polecat named Meg, a pet who rides in his coat pocket and turns out to be the kind of "familiar" (a supernatural spirit-animal form) familiar to witchcraft. He learns that he has modest occult powers himself and eventually converses with one of "the Purpose's" top executives, a gentleman, polite enough but obviously...
...York Congressman allegedly received, in addition, $50,000 in cash in exchange for making a similar pledge of immigration help. Both Congressmen are charged with trying to push their pet projects on the agents. Thompson allegedly asked them to make investments in his district that would benefit him personally. Murphy supposedly tried to get the agents to invest in a shipping venture that he would aid as chairman of the House Merchant Marine Committee...