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...agree that questions about batting one's eyelashes are inappropriate at any level of the selection process. We regret that interviewing committees are sometimes unable to assess women's abilities to react to stress without raising sex-related issues. However, we also think that students should realize the obligation of committees to raise sensitive issues which may be encountered by the student, to gauge command over a plan of study, and to test commitment to a future career. Most fellowships are not strictly objective and represent an investment in an individual's potential as well as a reward for academic...
...leader who has actually been wounded might react differently because of the complex chemistry of mind and body that surely changes in some way following such a trauma. One example is John Connally, who was the Governor of Texas when he was shot in the Kennedy motorcade. Horace Busby, aide and friend to both L.B.J. and Connally during those days, found that the Governor grew to be a "larger man." It may have been, reasoned Busby, a sense of how fragile life is that comes from having just missed death...
...question. "Given France's problems and limits, Giscard probably has done as well with it as anyone could," says Hoffmann in a judgment that is widely shared by foreign observers. Yet Giscard faltered at the start. For the first 27 months of his term, the government failed to react adequately to quadrupled international oil prices. Resorting to classic pump-priming methods, it fueled inflation while the franc weakened. The President then turned to hard-nosed Premier Barre, a decision that has been described as "the best Giscard has made in seven years...
...shades of scarlet. One, Fiona Watson, was discovered to have posed deshabille for Penthouse. Another, Davina Sheffield, was scratched after a former swain mouthed off about their life together. Perhaps a double standard should be etched into the royal coat of arms. "I wonder how the British people would react if they knew the extent of Charles' 'social' life," mused a man connected with court circles. "It is very extensive...
Benjamin H. Schatz '81, a member of the Harvard Radcliffe Gay Students Association, said students should unite in support of a progressive leaders instead of "waiting to react to a reactionary like Phyllis Schlafly...