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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gingerich is one of a rare breed of professors who take the time to sculpt their courses so that they entertain as well as instruct...
Unlike their Western counterparts, Soviet leaders almost never meet with foreign journalists. One of the rare exceptions occurred in 1979, when Leonid Brezhnev received Time Inc. Editor in Chief Henry Grunwald, TIME Managing Editor Ray Cave and Chief of Correspondents Richard Duncan for a formal interview. Last week, at the same long Kremlin table, aided by the same translator, the same three editors became the first Western newsmen to meet with Mikhail Gorbachev. What was new was the vigor and directness of the host. "Instead of delay, there was a definite aura of efficiency," said Cave. "The session...
...faced a possible 300 years in prison and fines of $103,000 when he appeared last week, gaunt and obviously unwell, for sentencing by U.S. District Judge Charles Norgle. "The man is dying," Defense Lawyer Patrick Tuite asserted, and Norgle announced that because the defendant suffers from a rare liver disease, he was setting the penalty at only twelve years in prison. LeFevour had been charged with taking some $400,000 in bribes to fix drunken-driving cases and parking tickets in Cook County traffic court. Declared Norgle: "Richard LeFevour had to decide whether to remain an honest judge. Again...
...optimism. It is hard not to like the "well read, well shaped, well disposed widow, early sixties, not half bad in the dusk with the light behind me." She sought a "companionable, educated, professional man of wit and taste," and she probably deserved him. Her self-effacement is fairly rare in personals. The ads tend sometimes to be a little ner- vous and needing, and anxiously hyperbolic. Their rhetoric tends to get overheated and may produce unintended effects. A man's hair stands on end a bit when he encounters "Alarmingly articulate, incorrigibly witty, overeducated but extreme- ly attractive...
...always had been a little reckless. He was an exceptionally smart kid, but he took few things seriously. He was in rare form the day we took the Scholastic Aptitude Test. The Proctor gave us a five-minute break between sections, but Ike stayed in the hall for 15 minutes. He took the test again and managed to impress the admissions people at Rice...