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...that, Morris was a somewhat reluctant recruit for the job. State Department Chief of Protocol Selwa Roosevelt gave the Reagans Morris' book on her husband's grandfather, the start of a planned three-volume work. The Reagans enjoyed the book, and in 1983 close aides like Michael Deaver began an ultimately successful two-year courtship of the author. Morris will not write his book until Reagan leaves office, but his agent is already angling for a publisher. The price rumored for the Reagan chronicle: more than $2 million. INDIANS A Mankiller Takes Over...
...employ their little fund of steps (The Nutcracker) or to aspire to (Serenade, a signature work he began within ten weeks of the school's opening). Starting in 1963, the school also benefited from then unprecedented grants of nearly $6 million from the Ford Foundation, which allowed it to recruit the best prospects nationwide and bring them to Manhattan on full scholarship. The money was a virtual endorsement of Balanchine's technique and style over any other. The grant accomplished its long-range purpose: today at least ten of the stronger American ballet troupes are headed by S.A.B. veterans...
...other peasants. But private entrepreneurs and village collectives have now expanded to all kinds of other businesses--inns, restaurants, stores, tailor shops, beauty parlors and light manufacturing like assembly of TV sets--often in competition with government-owned businesses. Some entrepreneurs have even opened services in major cities to recruit maids and other household help for busy urban families. Businessmen can hire workers privately, a practice that conventional Marxists regard as inherently exploitative. Legally, no private entrepreneur is supposed to employ more than 15 hired hands, but local Communist Party officials often ignore that limit...
...time in the service reinforced his instinctive sense of discipline. But it also reinforced that those smart enough to work the system could get special rewards. As a new recruit in London during World War II, he frequently took advantage of a policy that gave soldiers an extra day off if, instead of boozing it up at the pubs, they enjoyed a night of culture at the theater. Greenberg's tactic: buy a ticket, grab a playbill, walk in the front door--and right out the side door...
Administrators have pointed to opportunities to recruit women faculty in its long-term plans for FAS. Kirby said in October that the effort to expand the faculty, which has grown from 636 to 676 professors in the past two years, may allow Harvard to recruit more diverse faculty members...