Word: pretenders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...takes about 45 minutes to get to the Trib. One million Parisians cram into my car between "Louvre" and "George V," and when I stand up to get some air my seat snaps up and catches the bottom of my dress. No one sees this, but I pretend I know what I am doing anyway. I get off of the metro two stops too early and walk one mile to the Trib. I am one-half hour late; my dress has grease stains on it. It is raining...
...pretend that the issues Bok addresses are easy ones with immediately apparent solutions. But the University has a moral responsibility to be a leader in affecting meaningful change--only then will race relations and the lot of minorities improve. A Third World center and increased minority faculty were two of the specific measures suggested by minority students to help improve their status here; since Bok expresses pessimism about both ideas, it is his responsibility to formulate alternatives. His letter does not do that--it defends the status quo, and the status quo serves well neither the interests of Third World...
Foreign Aid. When Budget Director David Stockman first floated the idea of drastic foreign aid cuts, Secretary of State Alexander Haig reacted like a challenged general. A diplomatic compromise was soon reached: a 26% cut, down to a $4.8 billion 1982 outlay. "I am not going to pretend the cuts were a flesh wound," says State Department Spokesman William Dyess. "There was bleeding, but we support the cuts." Strategically important commitments to Egypt and Israel will remain mostly intact, meaning that the cuts will probably come from development aid programs involving the Third World. Some experts argue that the Reagan...
...past a starving begger, eyes carefully averted. The questions are never answered--there are no answers--but out of the explanations come profound observations about the nature and meaning of time. "What is past is not dead, it is not even past. We cut ourselves off from it; we pretend to be strangers," Wolf writes. Thus A Model Childhood becomes above all a plea to reconnect ourselves with our past, and teach our children the lessons of history as best we can--not to perpetuate guilt, but rather to promote sensitivity in the present...
Historically Reagan has never been a demanding boss. Yet the White House is changing his metabolism and his expectations. He does not pretend to keep the pace maintained by Carter or other recent predecessors, but he is chugging along steadily. To the trio in the Oval Office this evening, he ticks off requests -particularly his desire to get the first draft and back-up material...