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Today Harvard's Divinity School-founded as a separate institution on 1816-carries on many of the purposes and traditions of its predecessor. But silence on political and social issues is not one of them. Over the last few decades the Div School has emerged as a pocket of progressivism in a school long known for its traditional tastes...
Pulling a sheaf of papers from his breast pocket and waving them above his head, the President admonished reporters for incorrectly challenging him on statements at his press conference a month earlier. "I'd like you to know that documentation proved the score was five-to-one in my favor. I was right on five of them," the President told the nation. Never mind that his own press office refused to release that "documentation"; the President's own advisors acknowledged they had scheduled the conference so Reagan could dispel doubts about his credibility, not clear up specific issues...
...Baker, who is Bush's close friend, in 1980 threatened to resign as campaign manager unless Bush dumped Fitzgerald. Baker felt that she had more influence over the candidate than he did. After serious reflection, Bush did drop her temporarily, but then paid her out of his own pocket for a while...
...lively, impulsive man, Giugiaro is always armed with bundles of pens, pencils and colored chalk in every pocket. Rather than talk, he often sketches his part of a conversation. At Aspen, Colo., last June before an audience of 1,600 fellow designers, he chose not to read a paper on automobile design, but to draw his lecture. With the aid of special pens, he made sketches on an illuminated board, which were projected on a large screen...
...Director Milton Moss's attempts to create crowd scenes by bunching his cast in clumps. Doubtless the profit motive made the producers wheel a pushcart show to the Broadway stage. They might have recalled another Yiddish proverb: The longest road is the one that leads to the pocket. -By Stefan Kanfer