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Then there is the matter of Shawn's successor. Shawn attempted to anoint one several years ago, but he dropped the idea. Now the matter will be in Newhouse's hands. It seems plain that a succession of some kind will have to be devised, even though Shawn has displayed no desire to depart 43rd Street. How Newhouse handles Shawn, still very much a revered figure in the halls of The New Yorker, will go a long way toward determining how the New Yorker family feels about the new proprietor...
...schools are probably slimmer than his book (127 pages). Packaging is very serious about being remedial. The book is typeset with letters large enough for Dr. Seuss captions. And it is written, according to Yao, "like a good legal memorandum..lean, basic, and in plain English" I don't know about the "legal memorandum" stuff, but Yao isn't kidding about the plain English. A sample: "Misspellings and typos often overlap. It is sometimes hard to tell if we have a typo or a misspellings. Typos and misspellings can be very distracting and irritation...
...cousin Bienville tartly notes, "more names than Jehovah," among them Moumou, Puss and the Dauphin. This spectrally beautiful, thin, pale child speaks a bewildering mixture of French and "Ol' Kintuck," the hayseed dialect he absorbed during his brief exposure to Governor Davis' three strapping sons: "O, he jest being plain bad. O, il m'echappe toujours!" All the Sioux are holding their breath to see how George takes to Castleton. Armand reassures his brother-in-law: "The Dauphin has a truly terrifying sense of gratitude. You'll be annihilated by it, my poor Vince. Nothing can stand up against this...
...supporters claim that he is trying to defuse "revolutionary elements" before negotiating with black moderates and point out that the fist of short-term law enforcement is by no means incompatible with the open hand of long-term conciliation. Nonetheless, said U.S. Ambassador to Pretoria Herman Nickel, "The plain fact is that images of repression will always blot the more complicated story of reform...
That's just plain wrong. Those who attended Friday night's 53-51 loss to Penn remember that superstar Perry Bromwell-who eventually sunk a game-winning 18-ft, jumper with four seconds remaining-did not start the ballgame...