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...talk of "responsibility without comensurate authority" and administrative impotence, the presidents agreed that they retain a degree of influence over the university. "What you can do [as a college president]." Graves said, "is keep the institution in touch with itself." Two weeks into his administration. Graves called a "convocation" to set his goals for the college and to try to establish that elusive consensus. "Like campaign promises," he said, "you hope they soon forget...
...Mondale-Hart ticket interests many Democrats. One problem is that Hart, if he loses the presidential nomination, might decide he would be better off sitting this one out. He could campaign for the ticket, but still separate himself from a losing effort?if it loses? and thus retain his political integrity and be well positioned to chase the presidential nomination in 1988. In any case, many Mondale advisers are cool to the idea of having Hart on the ticket. They see him merely as an anti-Mondale magnet with little constituency...
...glimpse of France in June 1945. Painton, then an 18-year-old private first class, eventually wound up in Germany as part of an intelligence unit, where he edited rambling interrogation reports on high-ranking German prisoners. "I found my year of occupation duty unpleasant," says Painton. "I still retain a sense of shock at the spectacle of a broken, defeated nation...
Instead, it suggested three alternative options. One would absorb Ulster into a "unitary state" independent of Britain and governed from Dublin, with constitutional guarantees safeguarding both Protestants and Catholics. Another envisioned a federal arrangement in which North and South would retain some autonomy, but would be ruled by a central, confederal government. Last, an agreement would be reached by which the North would be jointly administered by Dublin and London...
...South Koreans were Christians. Today the figure is at least 20% of the country's 40 million population, a higher percentage than any other Asian country's except the Philippines' 83.5%. An estimated 16% of South Koreans are Buddhist, and 13% are Confucianist. Millions retain some adherence to various forms of shamanism, a primitive folk religion...